gdm3 with animated svg/gif during login?

[pwzhangzz]

I edited the /etc/gdm3/greeter.dconf-default file to try to use a different svg picture during login, but didn't work. Where can I find info about changing the gdm3 login theme? Is it possible to use an animated svg file?

[Bulkley]

When I did a search the very first hit was this: "How To Change The GDM3 Login Screen (Greeter) GTK Theme And Background Image Using gdm-tools " If that's not suitable there are lots more.

[pwzhangzz]

The problem I encountered is, when I tried to run the dpkg-reconfigure command as root, I received the following message:

root@L32:/usr/share/desktop-base/debian-logos# dpkg-reconfigure gdm3
invoke-rc.d: policy-rc.d denied execution of reload.

<edit> After a restart, I was able to change the gdm3 login logo, but no animation.

[stevepusser]

Do you have any references to gdm supporting animated logins like KDE, or is that just a wish?

[pwzhangzz]

I thought animated svg was allowed in lightDM, but I was wrong. It was a gif file.

Will try a gif file on gdm3 when I get time.

[pwzhangzz]

No animation in gdm3 with gif file. Animation in lightDM:



Would anyone recommend against switching from gdm3 to lightdm for Bullseye? Would appreciate real world experience.

[pwzhangzz]

Any update?

[eriefisher]

No animation in gdm3 with gif file. Animation in lightDM:



Would anyone recommend against switching from gdm3 to lightdm for Bullseye? Would appreciate real world experience.

I've been using lightdm for years under Sid without trouble. It's flexible and configurable as opposed to gdm3 which it seems you need an engineering degree to configure.

[arzgi]

Not strictly to OP's header, but you don't need any.

I have this at the end of .profile

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# startx if tty1

if [[ -z "$DISPLAY" ]] && [[ $(tty) = /dev/tty1 ]]; then
 . startx
 logout
fi

Think that last modifcation was by @wizard1000

[lindi]

The problem I encountered is, when I tried to run the dpkg-reconfigure command as root, I received the following message:

root@L32:/usr/share/desktop-base/debian-logos# dpkg-reconfigure gdm3
invoke-rc.d: policy-rc.d denied execution of reload.

<edit> After a restart, I was able to change the gdm3 login logo, but no animation.

You seem to have installed something that provides policy-rc.d. Do you know what package that is? You might be able to find out with

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dpkg -S $(which policy-rc.d)

[lindi]

Would anyone recommend against switching from gdm3 to lightdm for Bullseye? Would appreciate real world experience.

gdm3 supports wayland and headless sessions.