Could the Login Greeter / Lock screens inherit the mate panel settings / colours?

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I’ve moved from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to Ubuntu-Mate 16.04 in the past 24 hours and I must say the development choices and layout/usability are great so far.

I only have one comment around the look/feel is concerning the login / lock screens. I know you can edit a number of parameters through the built in tools, but the default colour of the login/dialog box on these screens looks out of place. i.e grey/white light background (I do like all the other aspects/choice made in the default theme)

If you could set these boxes to inherit the setting (either colour or transparency) used on the main panel bar then this would make these screen much more integrated in to the look/feel of the OS ‘out of the box’.

(I’ve seen the posts around using the unity-greeter and have successfully tried this on a test VM - but having this sorted on the default greeter/lock screen would be great)

A massive thanks to the developers who have contributed to this release.

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Hi,

have you checked Control Centre > LightDM-GTK? (pic is in German but you get the idea!)

LightDM-GTK Anmeldebildschirm: Einstellungen (als Systemverwalter)_002.jpg693×533 126 KB

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Yes, I’ve checked in the LightDM-GTK config. You can get the login box to be dark by setting a theme such as ‘BlackMATE’, but I was wondering if you could change the colour of these input boxes on the default ‘Ambiant-MATE’ theme.

If you had a check box on the above tool to say ‘Inherit MATE panel colour/theme’ then this would ensure consistency against how your desktop is configured on both login greeter and lock screens.

I’ve seen another post that mentions using Compiz to get transparency effects in the MATE menus, so will look in to this area/config.

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http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2014/01/install-lightdm-gtk-greater-1-7-1-ubuntu/

Take a look at the link above, it is old but might help?. :smiley:

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