Theme doesn't load properly

[pandaxtc]

After installing the theme, upon reaching the greeter, a dialog appears indicating that an error was detected in the theme. If the dialog is ignored, the theme does load, but many UI elements are broken. The OS logo doesn't appear, the wallpapers don't load, and the drop-down menus and buttons in the settings menu are broken.

[jamyouss]

I have the same issue :-(

[NoiSek]

This may or may not be solved with the completion of the 2.0 milestone: https://github.com/NoiSek/Aether/milestone/1

I'll start investigating this more once there's a new release in the pipeline, as almost all of the affected code will have changed.

[jamyouss]

Thanks 👍
Nice work by the way

[djsavvy]

The theme doesn't load at all for me. If I run lightdm-webkit2-greeter then there's a black screen telling me an error was detected in the theme (ignoring it gives the same black screen again). If I try to boot using it, the system hangs on the boot log and I have to switch to another TTY.

[xavierp]

@djsavvy I ran into the same problem, i modified the theme name in /etc/lightdm/lightdm-webkit2-gretter.conf from webkit_theme = lightdm-webkit-aether to webkit_theme = lightdm-webkit-theme-aether and now everything works fine.

[NoiSek]

An update has been pushed that may fix the original issue, but @djsavvy your issue sounds more like what I discovered here: #22 (comment)

[Rune580]

I've encountered the issue where you get a black screen and an error message comes up saying errors were found in the theme. same as @djsavvy issue

[Rune580]

Actually I've found a solution. seems like the name of the theme is different to whats in the config. In my case the theme was named Aether but the conf had it as lightdm-webkit-theme-aether.

[StarrKiss]

I have this error too, no matter what I name the theme in the config. I tried all of the options.

[StarrKiss]

It does load if you ignore the dialogue
But it has the OS icon missing and a bunch of other things

[StarrKiss]

Note, this is running on pop_os 19.04

[tralph3]

I have the same issue.

[Jakemate977]

If you've installed the theme via git you have rename the theme folder from Aether to lightdm-webkit-theme-aether, because it tries to access the wallpapers and the logos from there.

To do this you have to run:
# mv /usr/share/lightdm-webkit/themes/Aether /usr/share/lightdm-webkit/themes/lightdm-webkit-theme-aether
And don't forget to change the theme name in the lightdm-webkit2-greeter.conf file.