Tidy SDDM

A tidy theme for SDDM Qt6

Create your own custom color palette or use one of the 20+ palettes included in the theme.conf file

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Dependencies

• sddm
• qt6 >= 6.7
• qt6-declarative (Qt Quick)
• qt6-svg

Manually install

1. Either download and extract the tidy-sddm.tar.xz from the releases or use git clone

git clone https://github.com/loadfred/tidy-sddm

2. Move this entire repository to /usr/share/sddm/themes/

sudo mv ./tidy-sddm /usr/share/sddm/themes/

3. Create and edit /etc/sddm.conf to say ...

[Theme]
Current=tidy-sddm

.face.icon

If you want a user avatar, copy any image to your home folder and name it .face.icon

NOTE: If no image is shown, SDDM needs permission to open your home folder, this can be done with ...

sudo chmod o+X /home/myuser

theme.conf

Everything configurable is listed and explained in the theme.conf

[General]
layoutMirroring=false
chooseUser=false
militaryTime=false
disableTopHalfColor=false
fontPointSize=11
fontFamily=Inter
background=
icons=kora
palette=Blender

Background

For a background image, you may select it from the KDE system settings (sddm-kcm), otherwise enter the path ...

background=trees.png - if image is in the tidy-sddm folder (preferred)

background=/home/myuser/Pictures/greenforest.png - see the note below

NOTE: If no image is shown, SDDM needs permission to open your home folder, this can be done with ...

sudo chmod o+X /home/myuser

If no background is defined the base and window colors from your chosen palette will be used for the background

Icons

You may choose either adwaita, breeze, or kora

icons=breeze

Palettes

There are 20+ different color palettes in the config ready to use

palette=Breeze Dark

You may create your own color palette using Hex codes (#ffa03d) or color names (orange) using the following properties ...

[Palette Name]
base=
highlight=
highlightedText=
shadow=
text=
window=
windowText=

The majority of the palettes written in theme.conf are from lxqt-themes

Palette groups

You may create a group within a palette for an easy color change on a specific property or multiple properties

The group name is written before the property with a / seperating them: Red Group/base=#f00

The palette's group can be chosen with palette=Palette Name/Red Group

Here's an example ...

[Gruvbox Dark]
base=#282828
### Default highlight
highlight=#928374
### Various highlight colors, chosen with "palette=Gruvbox Dark/yellow"
red/highlight=#fb4934
yellow/highlight=#fabd2f
green/highlight=#b8bb26
aqua/highlight=#8ec07c
blue/highlight=#83a598
purple/highlight=#d3869b
highlightedText=#1d2021
shadow=black
text=#d5c4a1
window=#3c3836
windowText=#ebdbb2

The palette above can be chosen with either palette=Gruvbox Dark, palette=Gruvbox Dark/yellow, palette=Gruvbox Dark/purple, etc.