Aerial theme for SDDM

SDDM theme with Apple TV Aerial videos

Videos are played randomly and diferent playlists are used based on time of day (only day and night diferenciation, night between 5pm - 5am) its possible to tweak to have more time diferentiation, the one used is provided with the videos.

The goal of this fork is to keep the theme as simple as possible and with very few dependencies. Thanks to 3ximus for his original aerial-sddm-theme.

Dependencies

It is necessary to have the Phonon GStreamer backend for qt5, GStreamer ffmpeg Plugin and GStreamer Plugins Good.

• For Arch linux : pacman -S gst-libav phonon-qt5-gstreamer gst-plugins-good

• For Gentoo : these settings allowed me to make the theme work

  • media-libs/gst-plugins-good
  • USE="alsa gsteamer qml widgets" dev-qt/qtmultimedia
  • USE="gstreamer" media-libs/phonon

Installation

Simply clone the repository and copy it to /usr/share/sddm/themes/ like this:

git clone [email protected]:glsubri/simply_aerial.git
mv simply_aerial /usr/share/sddm/themes

Note that super user priviledges are needed to move files into that directory.

The theme can be tested by running sddm-greeter --test-mode --theme <path-to-this-repository>

Other notes

This theme streams the HD videos so a good internet connection is necessary. If there is no active connection or the video can't be played the background will fallback to the image background.jpg.

If you wish to play local videos files just use the following command to generate the playlist-file (playlist_day.m3u or playlist_night.m3u) from a directory containing the videos:

find <path-to-your-directory> -maxdepth 1 -type f > <playlist-file>

If you would like to use the same videos but offline, simply download them using your shell, e.g. :

while read -r link; do
    wget "$link"
done < file_that_you_want_to_download

Changing settings in theme.conf.user

You can change a few settings in this file

• background - default background image
• background_day and background_night - video playlists
• displayFont - font
• showLoginButton - if set to false will hide the login button
• showClearPasswordButton - if set to false will hide the clear password button that appears when text is inputed
• passwordLeftMargin and usernameLeftMargin - set margin between input boxes and labels, some fonts are messy and allows fixing of overlap
• relativePositionX and relativePositionY - position the login text box and clock

Example config (not the same as the screenshots):

[General]
background_day=playlist_day.m3u
background_night=playlist_night.m3u
displayFont="Misc Fixed"
showLoginButton=false
passwordLeftMargin=15
usernameLeftMargin=15

Preview

Using my custom theme.conf.user

License

Theme is licensed under GPL.