Testing your GDM Themes

Description:

Some users want to test their Gnome themes before changing to a broken theme or to perhaps test a theme a different resolutions. This is also helpful for users who are creating themes.

1. Open a Terminal Session:
2. Check for the command gdmthemetester

   which gdmthemetester

   (this should be installed along with the gdm rpm package)
   

3. Set the display resolution with the XNESTSIZE variable:

   export XNESTSIZE=1600x1200

   (replace 1600x1200 with whatever resolution you desire)
   

4. Using the gdmthemetester, launch the theme from it's folder:

   Usage: /usr/bin/gdmthemetester is one of: console, console-timed, flexi, remote-flexi, xdmcp is either the path of the theme or the name of an installed theme

   
   

5. Example, launching an installed theme at 1280x1024 resolution:

   export XNESTSIZE=1280x1024
   gdmthemetester  xdmcp /usr/share/gdm/themes/OPENCLIENT/

   
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