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Zany_Zachary1
Asked: 2020-11-05 09:54:30 +0800 CST

LightDM theme is not acting normal

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fellow Ubuntu Enthusiasts! I recently installed LightDM via sudo apt install lightdm and then installed lightdm settings tool via sudo apt-get install lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings
And now, LightDM looks all weird. It doesn't have the look that it used to with a fresh lightDM install. Can somebody please help me to restore all the settings?
My lightDM theme looks like this right now:
enter image description here But I want it to look like this:
enter image description here I'm on Ubuntu 20.04, Focal Fossa, by the way.

themes unity login display-manager lightdm

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    LightDM comes in different flavours. The first screen indicates that you have the lightdm-gtk-greeter activated.

    You control those settings settings in the /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf:

    [LightDM]
run-directory=/run/lightdm

[Seat:*]
greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter
user-session=xfce
session-wrapper=/etc/lightdm/Xsession

    In addition to that are "slickgreeter" or "unity-greeter" which you may have to install before configuring them.

    Ubuntu on the other hand uses the GDM (GnomeDisplayManager) which has a complete different look and feel.

    So I'd go for the slickgreeter -I think Linux Mint uses that - to get a close look to your second screen

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