Sequoia is a modern eye-candy theme for SDDM, making use of Nerd Fonts for its icons.
Written from scratch, it is primarily made for standalone SDDM, aiming to be customisable with accessibility options.
Packages used in this guide are for Arch Linux, package names may vary for your distro
- sddm
- a Nerd Font >= v3.0
- Qt6 >= 6.6
- qt6-declarative
- qt6-5compat
1- Once you have downloaded the tarball through the releases tab or cloning this repository, extract it to the SDDM theme directory (change the archive path if needed):
$ sudo tar -xzvf ~/sequoia.tar.gz -C /usr/share/sddm/themes
2- Edit your SDDM config file under [Theme] change Current to Current=sequoia (make sure to match the theme name with the theme's directory)
It should look like this:
[Theme]
Current=sequoia
If you wish to use the virtual keyboard, install qt6-virtualkeyboard
then edit your SDDM config file, under [General] set InputMethod to qtvirtualkeyboard:
[General]
InputMethod=qtvirtualkeyboard
see also: the Arch wiki guide
You can easily try out themes without changing your SDDM config or repeatedly logging out using this command:
$ sddm-greeter-qt6 --test-mode --theme /path/to/your/theme
It's quite the time-saver when configuring your theme.conf file.
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