A beautiful, awesome themed login screen written on lightdm and the lightdm-webkit2-greeter.
Iskra, (from russian: И́скра, translated: spark) was the name of a political newspaper founded by Vladmir Lenin in 1900. Iskra's motto was "From a spark a fire will flare up". The editorial line championed the battle for political freedom as well as the cause of socialist revolution.
Try it out here, at the LIVE DEMO.
- A beautiful Lockscreen slider
- Username promt (no userlist)
- Uses updated JavaScript API of Web Greeter for LightDM
- Shows the hostname
- Reboot, Poweroff, Suspend and Hibernation if avaliable
- Pick a random wallpaper from
img/wallpapersfolder
lightdmlightdm-webkit2-greeternpm
Installation packages of lightdm-webkit2-greeter for Ubuntu, Arch (and other distros) can be found here.
Clone the theme to /usr/share/lightdm-webkit/themes/iskra-webkit-greeter:
$ cd /usr/share/lightdm-webkit/themes
$ git clone https://github.com/felipemarinho97/iskra-webkit-greeter.git iskra-webkit-greeter
$ cd iskra-webkit-greeter
$ npm install
$ ./build.shTo select iskra as default theme just change the webkit-theme property in /etc/lightdm/lightdm-webkit2-greeeter.conf to iskra-webkit-greeter
To add more background wallpapers, copy the jpg files to img/wallpapers.
To uninstall, simply restore the greeter-session property of the /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf file and restart your computer (or at least lightdm).
You may also want to:
- Remove the folder
iskra-webkit-greeterwhich was created in/usr/share/lightdm-webkit/themes/ - Restore the
webkit-themeproperty of the/etc/lightdm/lightdm-webkit-greeter.conffile
Felipe Marinho – [email protected]
If you have any suggestions please fell free to contact-me.
- Fork it (https://github.com/FelipeMarinho97/iskra-webkit-greeter/fork)
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b feature/fooBar) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some fooBar') - Push to the branch (
git push origin feature/fooBar) - Create a new Pull Request


