Arch Aurora Borealis Startscreen

Animated SDDM-Theme and Splashscreen for Archlinux (KDE)

Installation

To build and install from source run sudo make install inside the cloned directory.

git clone https://github.com/higgsbosoncodes/Arch-Aurora-Borealis-Startscreen.git
cd Arch-Aurora-Borealis-Startscreen
sudo make install

AUR

You can also install this package from the AUR as arch-animated-startscreen.

Just run yay -S arch-animated-startscreen or pacaur -S arch-animated-startscreen.

Modification

SDDM-Theme

To modify the SDDM-Theme edit arch-aurora-sddm/Main.qml and rebuild the package with make install.

Changing Animation Durations

Just edit the duration in millisecons which is here formatted bold and red to adjust the duration.

FadeIn and FadeOut (black)

Main.qml Line 96 - 121:

 Image {
          z: 99
          anchors.top: background.top
          anchors.right: background.right
          id: blackBS
          anchors.fill: background
          source: "black.png"
          fillMode: Image.PreserveAspectCrop
          width: Screen.width
          height: Screen.height
          opacity: 1
          NumberAnimation on opacity { //FadeIn
              id: createAnimationBS
              from: 1
              to: 0
              duration: 600
              running: true
          }
          NumberAnimation on opacity { //FadeOut
              id: createAnimationBB
              from: 0
              to: 1
              duration: 600
              running: false
          }
      }

FadeOut (transition to splash)

Main.qml Line 70 - 94:

 Image {
          z: 100
          anchors.top: background.top
          anchors.right: background.right
          id: toBeCreated
          anchors.fill: background
          source: "background.png"
          width: Screen.width
          height: Screen.height
          opacity: 0
          NumberAnimation on opacity { //FadeIn
              id: createAnimation
              from: 0
              to: 1
              duration: 1500
              running: false
          }
          NumberAnimation on opacity { //FadeOut
              id: bwdAnimation
              from: 1
              to: 0
              duration: 800
              running: false
          }
      }

Background

To change the background replace background.png with your desired picture and rebuild the package with make install.

Additional Notes

This Theme is based on Arch Space Splashscreen by Yankı Ekin Yüksel and darkness-of-arch-sddm by rootofarch.

To rezip the package after making changes just run make zipup.

If you have any questions or suggestions feel free to message me via e-mail.

Music

You can optionally add music to the login screen. The preinstalled music is the background track of the Steam-game Besiege.

Images

Splash Demo