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Sddm lain wired theme

A sddm theme inspired by Serial experiments lain.

From lll2yu·Updated June 20, 2026·View on GitHub·

A sddm login screen inspired by 1998 anime ["Serial Experiments Lain"](https://myanimelist.net/anime/339/Serial_Experiments_Lain) The project is written primarily in QML, distributed under the Other license, first published in 2018. Key topics include: customization, display-manager, linux, sddm, sddm-theme.

Latest release: 0.9.1
January 26, 2019View Changelog →

Sddm-lain-wired-theme

A sddm login screen inspired by 1998 anime "Serial Experiments Lain"

Note-
This is a fork.
Original version can be found here

This one contains changes that I made for my 1366*786 screen.

In action :-

You can watch the preview video here.

Installation :-

Arch Linux

It is available on the AUR, you can install it with makepkg or using an AUR helper.

Using makepkg:

shell
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/sddm-lain-wired-theme.git cd sddm-lain-wired-theme makepkg -Ccsi

Other GNU/Linux distros

  • Make sure you have sddm installed and configured as your default login manager.
  • Install the dependencies qt5-multimedia & qt5-quickcontrols using your package manager.
  • Wav audio codecs are needed to play the sound, make sure you have package(s) that fulfill that installed.
  • Download the latest release
  • Decompress the *.zip or *.tar.gz file or run git clone https://github.com/lll2yu/sddm-lain-wired-theme
  • Copy all files and directories into /usr/share/sddm/themes/sddm-lain-wired-theme/ or open a terminal and run sudo cp -r sddm-lain-wired-theme /usr/share/sddm/themes

Usage

  • Open up your configuration file /etc/sddm.conf and set sddm-lain-wired-theme as your current theme
shell
[Theme] # Current theme name Current=sddm-lain-wired-theme
  • Now you are all set. Enjoy the aesthetic.

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