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Linux Mint: How to Configure the Login Window

Linux Mint: How to Configure the Login Window

By Mel Hawthorne 5 Comments

Every time you turn on your computer, you’ll see the login screen, allowing you to choose which user you want to sign in as. The default Linux Mint login screen has a branded background that you might not be a fan of. You can change this, however, and set a custom background, among other customisation options.

To configure the appearance of the login screen, press the Super key, then type “Login Window” and hit enter.

Tip: The “Super” key is the name that many Linux distributions use to refer to the Windows key or the Apple “Command” key, while avoiding any risk of trademark issues.

Press the Super key, then type “Login Window” and hit enter.

Once in the default “Appearance” tab of the login window options, the first option “Background” can be used to replace the branded background of the user selection screen. Just click on the current image, to enter a file browser to be able to select a new background.

The “Background colour” option is used to set a colour that is used before the background image loads. “Stretch background across multiple monitors” will span your background image over multiple monitors, ideal for ultrawide backgrounds in multi-monitor setups. “Draw user backgrounds” changes the background to the user’s desktop background when you select a user and get to the password entry screen. “Draw a grid” inserts a grid of dots over the background image.

The three theme options allow you to configure the colour and appearance of the login screen interface. “GTK theme” changes the colour of the edge of the password entry box. “Icon theme” appears to have no effect. “Mouse cursor” allows you to change the appearance of the mouse cursor.

Tip: Unfortunately, there’s no preview of the appearance change for the theme settings, to see the change, yourself, press Ctrl + Alt + L to lock the screen, then click the people icon to the right of the password entry field to return to the login window.

“Other monitors” allows you to select a secondary background that is shown on secondary monitors, leaving your main background image on the primary monitor. “Bottom left” is intended to display a small banner image at the bottom of the screen. You’ll want to select an appropriately scaled image for this purpose as no scaling will be performed.

Configure the appearance of the login screen to your personal preference.

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  1. Rich D says

    April 20, 2022 at 4:09 pm

    NONE of these selections worked in Mint 19.3
    Home is encrypted. Does THIS MATTER?
    Still getting no background selected pic on initial login.
    Can someone PLEASE HELP ME HERE?
    I’m also 32bit.

  2. PEBKAC's says

    December 26, 2021 at 5:57 pm

    Apparently, the well goes deeper…

    After installing `lightdm-settings`, clicking on the option did nothing for me. I then found installing the `lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings` did the trick.

  3. PEBKAC's says

    December 26, 2021 at 5:52 pm

    Mint moved away from MDM as of v19, and opted for LightDM instead. If the “Login Window” option is not available, like it was for me, install the LightDM settings app”

    `sudo apt install lightdm-settings`

    Hope that helps others with this issue.

  4. jim says

    August 25, 2021 at 11:21 am

    I’m having issue as well running Mint 20 XFCE. There is a ‘login window’ settings menu item and when I click it, it asks for authentication and then does not load the settings screen. Please advise.

  5. Ice Mephit says

    June 27, 2021 at 1:27 pm

    I don’t have the “login window”. How do I get it? I’ve searched online, but can’t find out how to fix this error. I’m on Linux Mint 20.

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