Description

SDDM Hills Theme is based on two themes :

• Maui
• Numix

and contains performance fix for Intel i915 video card that removes freezes and reduces unjustified CPU utilization (at least, on my ASUS Eee PC 1215P).

If QML works fine on your mashine, or SDDM works without freezes with any theme, you will not feel the difference.

SDDM Hills Theme also supports looped video background.

Instalation

Clone repo to your machine

git clone https://github.com/zettdaymond/sddm-hills-theme

Move sddm-hills-theme to your sddm themes directory, for example:

# mv sddm-hills-theme /usr/share/sddm/themes/hills

Open SDDM configuration file, for example /etc/sddm.conf in your favorite text editor and change follow strings :

[Theme]
# Current theme name
Current=hills

Video Background

Default

SDDM Hills theme supports video background. To setup theme's default video you need follow:

Go to the installed theme folder, for example

cd /usr/share/sddm/themes/hills

Start script to fetch video:

chmod +x ./fetchvideo.sh
./fetchvideo 

Script will download and save video file as ./resources/background/background.mp4

Open file theme.conf in your favorite text editor.

Change lines like follows:

[General]
background_video=resources/background/background.mp4
background_image=resources/background/background.jpg

#if 'true' then show background_video in loop, else show background_image.
use_video_instead_image=true

ATTENTION!!! Video does not shown in SDDM greeter preview mode. You need to re-login to see changes.

Custom

Unfortunly, on moment of theme creation, Qt QML does not allow smooth video loops using standart QML API. To prevent this, I decide to place 'dummy' image as a background. If you decide to use your video file, you should do the same.

Go to the installed theme folder, for example

cd /usr/share/sddm/themes/hills

Save your video file as ./resources/background/background.mp4

Start script to extract last video frame. ATTENTION!!! Script requires ffmpeg to work.

chmod +x ./lastframe.sh
./lastframe.sh ./resources/background/background.mp4

Open file theme.conf in your favorite text editor by root.

Change lines like follows:

[General]
background_video=resources/background/background.mp4
background_image=resources/background/background.jpg

#if 'true' then show background_video in loop, else show background_image.
use_video_instead_image=true

Links

• Background video : http://churchmediadesign.tv/painted-hillside-free-looping-background/
• IconSet from Numix and Maui theme. See links in Description