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Hack 21. Personalize Your Qingy Theme

Many themes are available
for
Qingy. See Figure 3-2 for a look at the default
Qingy login screen.

Figure 3-2. Default Qingy login screen

At the risk of sounding superstitious, some of us are not comfortable
with a start screen featuring a bug. Fortunately, you can download a
pack of alternate themes from http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/qingy/qingy_0.3_themepack_1.0.tar.bz2,
and extract it with the following commands:

# cp qingy_0.3_themepack_1.0.tar.bz2 /usr/local/share/qingy/themes
# tar jxvf qingy_0.3_themepack_1.0.tar.bz2

The j in the tar argument
jxvf tells tar to unpack a
bzip2 file (you can tell this has been packed
using bzip2 because the suffix is
bz2.) If you find a theme with a suffix of
tar.gz or tgz, use the
command tar zxvf to unpack the file
(z replaces j).

Almost all (if not all) of the themes are optimized for a screen
resolution of 1024x768. Keep that in mind when you configure your
copy of Linux to use frame-buffer consoles. If you choose a
resolution other than 1024x768, you might find you have to modify the
theme configuration file to get the login and other prompts to appear
in their proper locations. It's not hard to modify
Qingy themes for different resolutions, but if you can save yourself
the trouble by sticking to a resolution of 1024x768, why not?

If you prefer a theme other than the default theme, you change the
setting in the /usr/local/etc/qingy/settings
file. This line in the settings file controls which theme is used:

theme = "default"

To use a different themethe vendetta3 theme, for
examplemodify the theme value like this:

theme = "vendetta3"

Save your changes. Then (as root) type the following command:

# killall qingy

Don't worry; Qingy will restart by itself.
That's the purpose of the respawn
command in your /etc/inittab file. Now when your
Qingy login screens reappear, they should look something like Figure 3-3.

Figure 3-3. The Vendetta3 Qingy login screen

3.7.1. Personalize Every Terminal

You can assign themes or even screensavers (or notthe
screensavers can be quirky) to individual terminals by editing the
/usr/local/etc/qingy/settings file once again.
This time add a definition for specific terminals (ttys), like this:

tty=2
{
theme = "fireplace"
screensaver "pixel"
}
tty=3
{
theme = "vendetta2"
}

Save your changes. Then (as root) type the following command:

# killall qingy

Don't forget that you have to edit the /etc/inittab file and make Qingy the default for every terminal for which you assign a theme. If you assign a theme to tty3, but tty3 is still using something such as agetty instead of Qingy, your theme assignment won't have any effect.

Once again, Qingy will restart on its own with the appropriate themes
for each terminal.