On-the-Waterfall SDDM Theme 🦖🌊

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A dark, atmospheric survival-inspired login theme for SDDM, styled after the aesthetics of The Isle (Legacy). It features a sharp, responsive layout, a native high-performance blurred left sidebar, and a tailored color palette extracted from misty rocks and raw wilderness scenery.

Designed to make you feel the tension of prehistoric survival every time you boot up your Linux system.

• 🎭 The Isle Aesthetic: A cold, gritty palette of deep rocky greys and mossy green accents.
• 🧪 Native Qt6 Glassmorphism: High-performance sidebar blur utilizing Qt5Compat.GraphicalEffects without distorting the background.
• 🎛️ Custom Session Dropdown: Fully customized, zero-bug overlay menu for selecting Window Managers or Desktop Environments (Hyprland, Plasma, Sway, etc.).
• 🖋️ Custom Typography: Integrated Daneehand Regular typography across all interfaces.
• 🕒 Survival Clock: Real-time ticking clock with a localized date indicator.
• 👤 Smart Username Fallback: Remembers the last logged-in user or gracefully falls back to a default profile.

Clone this repository or download the ZIP archive and copy the folder directly into your system's SDDM themes directory:

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/neverloseagain1/On-The-Waterfall-SDDM-Theme

# Move the theme directory to system SDDM themes folder with the correct name
sudo cp -r On-The-Waterfall-SDDM-Theme/ /usr/share/sddm/themes/On-The-Waterfall

Edit your system's SDDM configuration file (usually found at /etc/sddm.conf or /etc/sddm.conf.d/theme.conf). Set the current theme under the [Theme] section:

[Theme]
Current=On-The-Waterfall

You can easily tweak colors, fonts, and backgrounds by editing the theme.conf file inside the theme directory:

[General]
# Color palette in HEX format (Misty rocks & Wilderness)
ColorLight="#D2D7DF"
ColorDark="#1B1E22"
ColorAccent="#5C6F65"
ColorInputBg="#0E1113"

# Font configurations
Font="daneehandregular"
FontSize="20"

# Path to your background image
Background="backgrounds/background.jpg"

You can preview and test how the theme looks live on your screen without logging out by running the following command in your terminal:

sddm-greeter-qt6 --test-mode --theme /usr/share/sddm/themes/On-The-Waterfall

Ensure your Linux distribution has the required graphical effects layer installed for the native blur to work on Qt6:

• For Arch Linux: sudo pacman -S qt6-5compat
• For Ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt install qml6-module-qt5compat-graphicaleffects
• For Fedora: sudo dnf install qt6-qt5compat