Warning
This theme requires SDDM v0.21.0 or newer. Make sure your distro provides the correct version before installing.
- consult docs/*
- consult TRANSLATORS.md
- SDDM ≥ 0.21;
- QT ≥ 6.5;
- qt6-svg;
- qt6-virtualkeyboard
- qt6-multimedia
- clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/ubuntubudgie/slickSDDM.git
cd slickSDDM/
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sudo mkdir /usr/share/sddm/themes/yourthemename -
Create a similar file in the yourthemename folder based on
sddm-conf/50-ubuntu-budgie.conf -
Make sure you change
Current=to be yourthemename -
test your changes
sddm-greeter-qt6 --test-mode --theme /usr/share/sddm/themes/yourthemename
from the systemd folder install to /usr/lib/systemd/system
budgie-sddm-display-setup --> /usr/libexec/budgie-sddm-display-setup
slicksddm-customize --> /usr/bin
slicksddm-customize.1 --> man1 help folder
There is a bash script called slick-customize that can be used to configure the theme
sudo ./slicksddm-customize -i
You should ship a copy of your theme.conf file in the same folder called theme.conf.example to allow the script to restore to defaults if requested.
You should update slicksddm-customize to point to yourthemename
- uiriansan/SilentSDDM: major thanks - basis for this theme
- Keyitdev/sddm-astronaut-theme: inspiration and code reference;
- Match-Yang/sddm-deepin: inspiration and code reference;
- qt/qtvirtualkeyboard: code reference;
- iconify.design: icons
All code inherits the same GPL-3 license as from SilentSDDM All faces.png inherits the same GPL-2 license as from budgie-control-center user-accounts/data/faces where the .jpg images have beenn converted to .png equivalents.

