I don't know on other systems, but on mine it's mostly a blank black screen during boot, and then it has the loading screen for a few seconds. I don't use the login screen. SLiM has some neat themes. However I doubt it will be used. I don't know how you could make a login screen more high tech though. All you do is click your name and type in the password :S <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Brian L. Fraser <<a href="mailto:breezyblueaps@gmail.com">breezyblueaps@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Now I know Ubuntu 10.04 is themed a lot better than the previous versions. You know getting the new "Shiny" look instead of that god awful rusty looking brown... What about the welcome / login screen. Since it is the first thing you see when booting up Ubuntu, can't we make it look a little snazzier, interesting, a little more high tech? Thanks for listening to me ramble -Breezy- -- ubuntu-art mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art</a> </blockquote></div>