Doto

declantyson.github.io/doto/

Installation

As a login screen

1. Install lightdm as your session manager
2. Install lightdm-webkit2-greeter
3. Download and save this repository into your lightdm-webkit2-greeter themes directory, normally located at usr/share/lightdm-webkit/themes/
4. Change your lightdm-webkit2-greeter conf file (normally located at /etc/lightdm/lightdm-webkit2-greeter.conf to the following:

[greeter]
  secure              = false
  webkit_theme        = doto

5. If you cannot log-in, try changing the following in your lightdm conf (normally located at /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf):

[Seat:*]
# under this setting or its equivalent
# change the user-session to your preferred session or DE
# available sessions are usually found at /usr/share/xsessions
# for example:
user-session=bspwm

Troubleshooting

If you are not seeing background images try installing the following packages:

• webkitgtk
• gstreamer1.0-libav
• gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-videoparsers

As a chrome extension

You can use Doto as your new tab page by navigating to chrome://extensions/ and clicking Load unpacked extension.

Obtaining more cinemagraphs

There's a handy npm script which browses /r/Cinemagraphs and scrapes appropriately sized and formatted files. Just run ./download.sh in the folder directory.

Alternatively save any mp4s you like in the /assets/backgrounds directory. They are numerically indexed. In order to ensure your new file is displayed update /assets/cinematic_bg_count.js to show the new total.

Changing the news/weather sources

Edit settings.js to point to your location, units and new sources.

• Weather is fed by OpenWeatherMap.
• News is sourced by News API.

It is recommended you also obtain your own API keys to avoid any traffic bursts.

Contributor thanks

• systemplado
• irfan798