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I'm testing Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with many desktop environments installed.



Currently I have the following:



$ dpkg -l | grep -i greet
ii arctica-greeter 0.99.1.4-1 amd64 LightDM Arctica Greeter
ii arctica-greeter-guest-session 0.99.1.4-1 all LightDM Arctica Greeter - Guest Session Support
ii kylin-greeter 19.04.2 amd64 Ubuntu Kylin Greeter
ii lightdm-autologin-greeter 1.0-3 all Autologin greeter for LightDM
ii lightdm-gtk-greeter 2.0.6-0ubuntu1 amd64 simple display manager (GTK+ greeter)
ii lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings 1.2.2-3 all settings editor for the LightDM GTK+ Greeter
ii slick-greeter 1.3.2+dfsg.1-1 amd64 Slick-looking LightDM greeter
ii ukui-greeter 1.2.5-1 amd64 Lightdm greeter for UKUI
ii unity-greeter 18.04.0+20.04.20200312-0ubuntu2 amd64 Unity Greeter
ii unity-greeter-badges 0.4-0ubuntu3 all Additional badges for Unity Greeter

$ ls /usr/share/xgreeters/ -al
total 104
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 апр 30 22:05 .
drwxr-xr-x 2696 root root 69632 мая 1 00:25 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3057 дек 3 00:29 arctica-greeter.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 131 фев 27 21:54 kylin-greeter.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 206 авг 17 2018 lightdm-autologin-greeter.desktop
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 апр 23 17:11 lightdm-greeter.desktop -> /etc/alternatives/lightdm-greeter
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 187 сен 18 2018 lightdm-gtk-greeter.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 131 мар 3 23:39 slick-greeter.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 127 апр 7 09:43 ukui-greeter.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 131 апр 2 12:58 unity-greeter.desktop

$ update-alternatives --config lightdm-greeter
There is 1 choice for the alternative lightdm-greeter (providing /usr/share/xgreeters/lightdm-greeter.desktop).

Selection Path Priority Status
------------------------------------------------------------
0 /usr/share/xgreeters/lightdm-gtk-greeter.desktop 60 auto mode
* 1 /usr/share/xgreeters/lightdm-gtk-greeter.desktop 60 manual mode

Press <enter> to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:


Currently I see that the system uses Arctica styling which does not allow to scroll the list of available graphical sessions.

How can I switch it to different one?



I tried to use lightdm-settings, lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings-pkexec and sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm, sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm-gtk-greeter, sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings, but no luck.


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This is a case when configuration is possible by package removal. I can't find other solution.

So we need to remove almost all lightdm greeter packages:



sudo apt-get purge arctica-greeter arctica-greeter-guest-session
sudo apt-get purge kylin-greeter ukui-greeter
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge


and (re)install the most usable one:



sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-mate-lightdm-theme


and enjoy scrollable list of all available desktop sessions:



ubuntu-mate-lightdm-theme selected


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