Change the screensaver login screen?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Nov 10 20:30:09 UTC 2003


Garrett LeSage (garrett at redhat.com) said: 
> > I really don't like the login screen that xscreensaver gives me after 
> > login the screen.  It looks so...well...athena widgets.  Are there any 
> > replacements that match Redhats other gnome themes?
> 
> That would be nice.
> 
> It's been talked about, and I even did some graphics for it, but (iirc), 
> it is hard-coded like that and someone would have to rewrite it to use 
> GTK+ and also be themable.  As it is not, it has not been updated yet.

The main issue is that it's preferred that the app that be checking
the passwords not be linked against all the GUI libraries. So it
would require rearchtecting the dialog into two parts.

Bill





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