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How to change the LightDM theme/greeter?

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I downloaded a couple greeters for LightDM, but I have not figured out how to enable them. Is there a way to switch greeter, either by graphical or command-line method?. I do not intend to change display manager, nor the background, but to change the layout and appearance of the login screen through a different "theme" (greeter is the name for LightDm themes). Thanks for your time.

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answered 2 Years ago afyess · Accepted Answer

Just edit the greeter-session option in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf to the desired greeter.

If you for example want to use the lightdm-gtk-greeter.

Open up '/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf' with any editor as root. For examplesudo vim /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf then change the line

greeter-session=unity-greeter

to

greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter

If the file does not exist, let it contain

[SeatDefaults]

greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter

Then all you have to do is make sure that the greeter is installed (e.g. the package lightdm-gtk-greeter) and then restart lightdm.