A brief how to showing what I do to customise the look and feel of my Debian install.

Commands used:

1. Lightdm configuration:

Install slick-greeter

Add/uncomment the following entries in etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf: greeter-session=slick-greeter greeter-hide-users=false

Then save your preferred background in /usr/share/backgrounds

Create /etc/lightdm/slick-greeter.conf and add the following to the file: [Greeter] draw-user-backgrounds=false draw-grid=false background=/usr/share/backgrounds/nameof.jpg (or whatever you want to call it).

2. Grub configuration:

Use Gimp to rescale your image to 640x480 and save as a tga file Copy tga file to /boot/grub sudo update-grub

3. Plymouth configuration

Delete the word splash from this entry in /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= sudo update-grub