2025-07-21 Notes
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In my adventure to rice out hyprland I set up a sddm theme today, and it looks sick by only changing the wallpaper. I tried out one theme and was pretty...

Date: July 21, 2025

In my adventure to rice out hyprland I set up a sddm theme today, and it looks sick by only changing the wallpaper. I tried out one theme and was pretty happy with the results.

Image: screenshot-2025-07-22T01-30-03-700Z.png <https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/f89bc45e-aa10-473e-ae7b-85c0813850c6.png>

Alright, I ended up ricing out some more, looks so much better than the default sddm theme.

Image: screenshot-2025-07-22T01-42-51-608Z.png <https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/4bf76e68-9a8a-4aa1-b7e9-2df48e63b963.png>

Default sddm.

Image: screenshot-2025-07-22T01-43-40-329Z.png <https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/f5c2a31a-63e0-4133-b33b-cdad936eb921.png>

My only hiccup was the wallpaper needed to be in a path relative to the theme root directory and not an absolute path to my home directory.

This command was super helpful for testing greeter themes.

```
sddm-greeter-qt6 --test-mode --theme /usr/share/sddm/themes/eucalyptus-drop
```