Vitruvian Tux

Let's see how to make uniform the installation (and removal) of themes for GDM on a Debian-like.

First we must say that this, though not essential, it helps to easily keep track of installed themes and redeploy it into a format more comfortable ..

Meanwhile we get the tools we will need a fast

$ Sudo apt-get install alien

Now we only have to install our theme downloaded (or copy the one we created) in
/ usr / share / gdm / themes /

This operation allows us to recreate when the store to keep the correct installation path (usually the subjects distributed in the network does not contain the full path but only the theme folder which is not sufficient for a successful installation when converted to. Deb ).

Recreate the archive with the command

$ Tar zcvfp nometema.tar.gz / usr / share / gdm / themes / themename /

Then (after we moved in the path where we have created the archive) we create, finally, the package. Deb with

$ Sudo alien-d nometema.tar.gz

The result will be a file named nometema_1-2_all.deb that we can install like any other debian package thereby keeping track of its presence in the system.

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Tags:. Tar.gz, alien, deb, GDM, GDM theme, GNOME Display Manager

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