Customise logonscreen

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How can I customise the logonscreen ?
I think there were settings but I can't find them anymore (24.04)

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I think what you're looking for is customizing the welcome screen.

To customize the welcome screen on an Ubuntu server, you can modify the scripts located in the /etc/update-motd.d/ directory. These scripts are executed every time a user connects to the server and build the message of the day (MOTD) output. You can add custom code to these scripts or create new ones with a higher priority number to ensure they are executed last.

For example, to add a custom ASCII text welcome message, you can create a file with a priority number of 99, such as /etc/update-motd.d/99-custom-welcome . This file should be a shell script that outputs your custom text. You can use an online tool like Text to ASCII Art Generator (TAAG) to generate ASCII art and convert it into a script format.

Here is an example of what the script might look like:

#!/bin/sh
echo "____ _ _ "
echo "| __ ) __ _ ___| | _____ _ __ __| |"
echo "| _ \\ / _' |/ __| |/ / _ \\ '_ \\ / _' |"
echo "| |_) | (_| | (__| < __/ | | | (_| |"
echo "|____/ \\__,_|\\___|_|\\_\\___|_| |_|\\__,_|"
echo ""
echo ""

Make sure to give the script executable permissions using chmod +x /etc/update-motd.d/99-custom-welcome .

This method allows you to customize the welcome screen to include ASCII art or any other custom text you desire.

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No, I mean the graphical logon screen. I remember being able to change the background and the behavior of the num lock.

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This forum has plenty of info, just search.

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I recently made a script with a graphic user interface, to do it. Can you test it and tell me your feedback?

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