Where is my SDDM theme?

👀 That feeling when your SDDM theme suddenly disappeared...

The most minimalistic and highly customizable SDDM theme. Only black screen and password input field. Nothing extra, right? Even when you enter wrong password theme will show only red border around your screen. To login, just type your password and press <Enter> key.

Examples of customization

To install one of these configs, run inside theme directory:

cp <path to config> theme.conf

If config based on image background, also copy image. For example:

cp example_configurations/tree.conf theme.conf
cp example_configurations/tree.png tree.png

Classic (where_is_my_sddm_theme/theme.conf)	Classic, no cursor (where_is_my_sddm_theme/example_configurations/classic_nocursor.conf)
Grey (where_is_my_sddm_theme/example_configurations/grey.conf)	Light grey (where_is_my_sddm_theme/example_configurations/lightgrey.conf)
Blue (where_is_my_sddm_theme/example_configurations/blue.conf)	Tree (where_is_my_sddm_theme/example_configurations/tree.conf)
Catppuccin (https://github.com/catppuccin/where-is-my-sddm-theme)

If you have created an interesting configuration that might be useful to other people, please share it via Pull Request!

Keymaps

F2 or Alt+u - cycle select next user

Ctrl+F2 or Alt+Ctrl+u - cycle select prev user

F3 or Alt+s - cycle select next session

Ctrl+F3 or Alt+Ctrl+s - cycle select prev session

F10 - Suspend.

F11 - Poweroff.

F12 - Reboot.

F1 - Show help message.

Installation

With script

This script installs latest theme version from main branch.

This script should be run with super user privileges (sudo)!

To install theme for Qt6, run sudo ./install.sh

To install theme for Qt5, run USE_QT5=true sudo ./install.sh

To install theme as current, run sudo ./install.sh current

From KDE store

You can find product page on pling

On KDE

1. Open System settings
2. Choose Start and finish/Log in (SDDM)
3. Click on "...", then "Download SDDM theme..."
4. Search "Where is my sddm theme?" theme
5. Install
6. Activate

On other DEs/WMs

1. Open link
2. Click on "Install"
3. Unzip downloaded archive
4. Copy given folder to /usr/share/sddm/themes (sudo cp -r where_is_my_sddm_theme/ /usr/share/sddm/themes)
5. Open /etc/sddm.conf
6. Change line Current=... to Current=where_is_my_sddm_theme

From source

1. Clone repo
2. On other DEs/WMs (steps 4-6)

Configuration

In theme.conf file you can find theme configuration.

Awailable settings:

passwordcharacter=* - Password mask character

passwordMask=true - Mask password characters or not ("true" or "false")

passwordInputWidth=0.5 - value "1" is all display width, "0.5" is a half of display width etc.

passwordInputBackground= - Background color of password input

passwordInputRadius= - Radius of password input corners

passwordInputCursorVisible=true - "true" for visible cursor, "false"

passwordFontSize=96 - Font size of password (in points)

passwordCursorColor=random - Color of password input cursor

passwordTextColor= - Color of password input text

passwordAllowEmpty=false - Allow blank password (e.g., if authentication is done by another PAM module)

showSessionsByDefault=false - Show or not sessions choose label

sessionsFontSize=24 - Font size of sessions choose label (in points).

showUsersByDefault=false - Show or not users choose label

showUserRealNameByDefault=true - Show user real name on label by default

usersFontSize=48 - Font size of users choose label (in points)

background= - Path to background image

backgroundFill=#000000 - Or use just one color

backgroundFillMode=aspect - Qt fill mode for background image

basicTextColor=#ffffff - Default text color for all labels

blurRadius= - Radius for background blur. A larger radius increases the blur effect.

hideCursor= - Set to true to hide mouse cursor.

cursorBlinkAnimation=true - Enable or disable cursor blink animation ("true" or "false") This option works only in Qt6.

font=monospace - Default font

helpFont=monospace - Font of help message

helpFontSize=18 - Font size of help message (in points)

Disable virtual keyboard

You can disable virtual keyboard by setting line InputMethod=qtvirtualkeyboard to InputMethod= in sddm config file. SDDM config is located in /etc/sddm.conf (or /etc/sddm.conf.d/kde_settings.conf)

Contributions

Contributions are welcome! Create Issues and PRs

Support the development

You can support the development of this theme and other project by donating me here ❤️