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wisemagic

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Registered: 2011-09-17

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Customizing Question

XUbuntu Synaptic Login

Standard Debian Synaptic Login

Both running Greybird Theme
Same Font

Question: Does anyone know how to make the standard Debian Synaptic login dialog look like the XUbuntu one?

ctac

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Registered: 2017-05-08

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Re: Customizing Question

What are the differences ?
Password for root: vs Password:
I don't use XUbuntu but I think there is no root account.
The Icon :
In debian the icon is the synaptic icon. To get the defaut key icon, you must remove the line

    <icon_name>synaptic</icon_name> 

in /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/com.ubuntu.pkexec.synaptic.policy
Be careful, It's a system file.
This way, I don't get the same Icon, perhaps It's because I don't use Greybird Theme.
I think you can adjust other différences like font in Setting menu.

wisemagic

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From: Louisiana U.S.A.

Registered: 2011-09-17

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Re: Customizing Question

NO, don't care about the icon.

Visually,.... the size of the dialog window itself.

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,486

Re: Customizing Question

It looks like xubuntu (ubuntu) patches the code to make the string wrap at 70 characters. From https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelog … /changelog:

* Auth dialog: Make the label wrap at 70 chars.
    Because GtkWindow doesn't have a default width anymore.
    Thanks to Lars Uebernickel! (via Ubuntu)

The patch file is locate here:

From: Lars Uebernickel <lars@uebernic.de>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 15:35:25 +0200
Subject: Auth dialog: Make the label wrap at 70 chars

Because GtkWindow doesn't have a default width anymore.

Bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738688
Bug-Ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1382566
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 src/polkitgnomeauthenticationdialog.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/polkitgnomeauthenticationdialog.c b/src/polkitgnomeauthenticationdialog.c
index d307516..efd4185 100644
--- a/src/polkitgnomeauthenticationdialog.c
+++ b/src/polkitgnomeauthenticationdialog.c
@@ -574,6 +574,7 @@ polkit_gnome_authentication_dialog_constructed (GObject *object)
   g_free (s);
   gtk_misc_set_alignment (GTK_MISC (label), 0.0, 0.5);
   gtk_label_set_line_wrap (GTK_LABEL (label), TRUE);
+  gtk_label_set_max_width_chars (GTK_LABEL (label), 70);
   gtk_box_pack_start (GTK_BOX (main_vbox), label, FALSE, FALSE, 0);
 
   /* secondary message */
@@ -601,6 +602,7 @@ polkit_gnome_authentication_dialog_constructed (GObject *object)
     }
   gtk_misc_set_alignment (GTK_MISC (label), 0.0, 0.5);
   gtk_label_set_line_wrap (GTK_LABEL (label), TRUE);
+  gtk_label_set_max_width_chars (GTK_LABEL (label), 70);
   gtk_box_pack_start (GTK_BOX (main_vbox), label, FALSE, FALSE, 0);
 
   /* user combobox */

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wisemagic

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Re: Customizing Question

Thanks ToZ.

This may be a bit beyond my capabilities. I'm not sure how to install, or patch with this.

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,486

Re: Customizing Question

I'm not that familiar with debian. Perhaps the debian forums would be a better place to ask about patching packages. I imagine it would involve using something like quilt.

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