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quad

A simple clean theme for web-greeter with a procedurally generated background, designed for elite hackers. Try out the live version to see for yourself!

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Installation

This is a theme for web greeter therefore that must be installed first.

Download the latest release, extract and run $ sudo ./install.sh. You will then need to set webkit_theme=quad in /etc/lightdm/lightdm-webkit2-greeter.conf

Installation from source

Requires node and npm to be installed.

First clone the repo git clone git@github.com:jackdeadman/quad.git

Then run sudo ./install.sh

Then update the theme in /etc/lightdm/lightdm-webkit2-greeter.conf

Developing

To make the developing experience more enjoyable the theme can be deployed in a browser as well as natively. To run the theme in a browser run npm run dev this will start a webserver, the resulting page can be viewed at http://localhost:8000. This command also starts a livereload server, if the livereload extension is enabled the webpage will automatically update on changes made to the source files.

To test the theme natively run sudo ./install.sh --dev this will install the theme and then open a window showing the theme. See https://github.com/Antergos/web-greeter for more details on how to setup web-greeter for debugging.