Is there any way I can use LightDM themed with the Unity greeter with a systemd-based init? The lightdm-unity-greeter package available in the AUR depends upon lightdm-ubuntu, which conflicts with lightdm. lightdm provides a systemd unit, but lightdm-ubuntu does not. Is there another way to have lightdm-ubuntu start on boot even though it doesn't have systemd support?P.S.
Hey there everybody,
My unity greeter seems all bugged up since the update to 12.10
I booted it up in test mode and took a screen, terminal dump here:
Code:
[+0,00s] DEBUG: unity-greeter.vala:438: Starting unity-greeter 12.10.4 UID=1000 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
[+0,00s] DEBUG: unity-greeter.vala:441: Setting cursor
[+0,00s] DEBUG: unity-greeter.vala:455: Loading command line options
[+0,00s
Unity-greeter crashes, and constantly respawns, not letting me in. So, I configured auto login but that won't start anything except Unity session. I changed the lightdm.conf file to run Xubuntu but Unity still shows up. If I create a new user, it will start in Xubuntu just fine.
The login and Unity Greeter is working. However, if I try to log-in - in a matter of seconds, it would return to the login screen.
This happened when I tried to install a package and I restarted my computer.
I also tried to uninstall, install, re-install, upgrade the lightdm, gdm and gnome.
I installed/reinstalled Ubuntu Desktop/Cinnamon/Gnome3 as well, to try and see if it would work.
When i asked this on debian forums, they kicked me away :)
I have installed lightdm from debian repo and unity-greeter from ubuntu 12.04 package. It works fine - i can change background, choose theme and enable/disable grid.
This simple tutorial is going to show you how to remove the white dots in LightDM login screen in Ubuntu 12.10.
If you have already installed the Ubuntu Tweak, navigate to Tweaks -> Login Settings -> unlock -> turn off draw grid.
Alternatively, hit Ctrl+Alt+T, copy and paste following commands into terminal and run one by one.
Allow user lightdm to create a connection to the X server:
sudo xhost
Lightdm is displayed properly but after entering a password and clicking login, I see the screen blink and lightdm window re-appears and asks to log in as if nothing happened.
Configs
user@laptop:~$ cat /etc/lightdm/
lightdm.conf lightdm-gtk-greeter-ubuntu.conf
lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf users.conf
lightdm.conf
user@laptop:~$ cat /etc/lightd
Since upgrading to 12.10, the login screen shows the desktop background of a particular user, rather than the generic background that I would expect. Is this a bug? Is there anyway to configure the desktop background to be used? I looked at the config files in /etc/lightdm, but I see nothing there that seems to imply using a user-specific desktop background for the greeter.
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 with gnome-shell. I have two admin user accounts.
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