login

Minimal static login theme for the equisdots desktop (SDDM greeter).

Version: 0.1.0 · License: MIT

Design

Black screen. Only the remembered user and a password field:

• the last logged-in user is shown as plain text (SDDM remembers it);
• the password field is a white underline that expands from the center when focused;
• below, centered: a session picker (glyph + session name, minimal popup, last session preselected) and power off / reboot as small circular glyph buttons;
• monochrome, no images, no palette dependency;
• Hack Nerd Font for text and glyphs.

Animations (all local, no scripting):

• soft intro: the fields fade in and slide up;
• underline: grows and brightens on focus;
• failed login: shake + red underline + small login failed note;
• user switch (Tab / Backtab): cross-fade of the fields;
• subtle color fades on every control hover.

Why static

The old palette-synced theme needed writes under /usr/share/sddm/themes at runtime, which meant sudo calls from hooks and a real risk of PAM lockouts (pam_faillock). This theme is installed once and never writes again:

• no palette/wallpaper sync, no Colors.qml, no background image;
• runtime sudo: none;
• conflicts handled at install: theme.conf.user is parked as .bak, the on-screen keyboard is disabled.

Install

./install.sh              # one-time sudo: theme + sddm config
./install.sh --uninstall  # remove the theme and its sddm config

The installer copies the theme to /usr/share/sddm/themes/x, selects it in /etc/sddm.conf.d/10-x-theme.conf and removes leftovers from the previous version.

It also makes sure SDDM is the active display manager: if another DM (plasmalogin, GDM, LightDM, Ly, greetd...) owns /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service, the previous symlink is kept at display-manager.service.equisdots-backup and the link is switched to SDDM (the other DM is disabled). --uninstall restores it. The theme can only be shown when SDDM is the one greeting you.

Structure

login/
  install.sh               installer (one-time sudo)
  z-disable-virtualkbd.conf  sddm fragment that disables the virtual keyboard
  theme/x/                 the SDDM theme (Qt6)
    Main.qml               the whole UI + animations
    metadata.desktop       theme metadata
    theme.conf             [General] InputMethod= (no background)

Integration

dots install clones this repo; dots system runs the hyprland installer, which delegates the SDDM theme to this repo's install.sh (sibling checkout). The hyprland uninstall.sh delegates here too.