Ubuntu – Use Adapta theme for Lock Screen

17.10gdmgnome-shellthemes

I have installed the Adapta theme.

I successfully enabled the Adapta Nokto them on the GDM3 Login Screen using:

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gdm3.css gdm3.css /usr/share/themes/Adapta-Nokto/gnome-shell/gdm3-Adapta-Nokto.css 1
sudo update-alternatives --config gdm3.css

This, of course, shows the Adapta Nokto theme whenever I need to log into my system.

However, if I lock my screen, the default gnome-shell theme is shown (/usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css).

How can I make the Lock Screen use the Adapta-Nokto theme (/usr/share/themes/Adapta-Nokto/gnome-shell/gdm3-Adapta-Nokto.css)?

Note:
My system desktop theme is set to Adapta, and my gnome-shell theme (top bar and dock) is is set to Adapta-Nokto (because I am using the User Themes extenson).

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The solution is to use the gnome-shell-theme.gresource file from the Adapta-Nokto theme.

EDIT: I updated this solution to create a link to the Adapta-Nokto gnome-shell-theme.gresource theme file, instead of copying it. This way, the Lock screen will always use the most recent version of the Adapta-Nokto theme, whenever it is updated.

Open a terminal, and change to the gnome-shell directory.
```
cd /usr/share/gnome-shell/
```
Backup the original gnome-shell-theme.gresource file. The following command will only create the backup, if the current file is not a link (created using step 3).
```
if ! [[ -h gnome-shell-theme.gresource ]]; then sudo mv gnome-shell-theme.gresource gnome-shell-theme.gresource.original; fi
```

Link to the Adapta-Nokto theme's gnome-shell-theme.gresource file.

sudo ln -frs /usr/share/themes/Adapta-Nokto/gnome-shell/gnome-shell-theme.gresource gnome-shell-theme.gresource

Reboot to enable the new Lock screen. (Just loging-out and logging-back-in is not sufficient to enable the new Lock screen, because you are repeatedly taken back to the Login screen after you enter your password).
Note: if the gnome-shell-common package is updated at a future time, you may need to execute steps 1 thru 3 again to re-enable the Adapta-Nokto Lock screen theme.

Reference: Materia GDM Theme

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Ubuntu – How to customize Lock Screen theme in Ubuntu 20.04

In a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04, the default shell theme.. and lock screen both are configured to use the css file

Yaru/gnome-shell.css which is inside the /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/Yaru/gnome-shell-theme.gresource

this is configured in the file /usr/share/gnome-shell/modes/ubuntu.json

{
    "parentMode": "user",
    "stylesheetName": "Yaru/gnome-shell.css",
    "themeResourceName": "theme/Yaru/gnome-shell-theme.gresource",
    "debugFlags": ["backtrace-crashes-all"],
    "enabledExtensions": ["ubuntu-dock@ubuntu.com", "ubuntu-appindicators@ubuntu.com", "desktop-icons@csoriano"]
}

So, you can pointout what ever .gresource file you want to use and the corresponding gnome-shell.css

for example, If I want Yaru-dark theme, I can simply point out like this by editing the file /usr/share/gnome-shell/modes/ubuntu.json

Take Backup of the file /usr/share/gnome-shell/modes/ubuntu.json before editing

{
    "parentMode": "user",
    "stylesheetName": "Yaru-dark/gnome-shell.css",
    "themeResourceName": "theme/Yaru/gnome-shell-theme.gresource",
    "debugFlags": ["backtrace-crashes-all"],
    "enabledExtensions": ["ubuntu-dock@ubuntu.com", "ubuntu-appindicators@ubuntu.com", "desktop-icons@csoriano"]
}

Please note that Default shell theme and lock screen uses same file.. so If you want Yaru shell theme for the desktop session.. you need to install it as a local theme which is another topic.

I have not tried with full path of the .gresource file.. in the line

"themeResourceName": "theme/Yaru/gnome-shell-theme.gresource",

this means.. theme/Yaru/gnome-shell-theme.gresource is a relative path of the base /usr/share/gnome-shell

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