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#12 slim-theme for SLiM v1.4.0

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nobody
2024-05-30
2024-05-30
CIV
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Hello:

Seeing that (for the time being) I cannot get v1.4.1 to run under Daedalus, I went looking for a way to solve the problem with how SLiM 1.4.0 behaves in a setup with more than one monitor.

I use a two Nvidia card/ three three monitor setup, with one card connected to monitors #1 and #3 and the other connected to monitor #2.

But I was getting 50% of the login prompt at the right side of the left monitor and 50% at the left side of the right monitor.

One option would have been to make the centre monitor the main monitor (in BIOS) but I wanted to avoid the hassle involved in doing that.

I managed to get the login prompt to appear at the centre of the left monitor by editing my original /usr/share/slim/themes/slim-minimal-master/slim-theme file.

Changing the value of msg_x to 50% did the trick:

msg_x      50%
msg_y      40%

So that was one problem solved.

But, even though the settings username_msg and password_msg are remmed out ...

# username_msg      username:
# password_msg      password:

... I am still getting the 'Please enter your user name' and 'Please enter your password' prompts, something that did not happen with the pre v1.4.0 versions of SLiM.

What I am looking to get is something really slim:
ie: a black screen with (at most) just the cursor, nothing else.

What setting do I have to modify/add to the slim-theme file to achieve that?
Using the settings below won't work.

# disable welcome message
# position is absolute
# welcome_x         -1
# welcome_y         -1

Thanks in advance.

Best,

CIV

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