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Display Managers

Jonathan Chan edited this page Oct 16, 2022 · 1 revision

General

  • Enable/disable display manager: sudo systemctl enable/disable {lightdm, sddm, gdm, ...}
  • Sessions: /usr/share/xsessions/*.desktop
  • Greeters: /usr/share/xgreeters/*.desktop

LightDM

Changing the greeter

  1. Install and configure greeter:
  • Slick greeter (lightdm-slick-greeter): lightdm-settings to configure
  • GTK+ greeter (lightdm-gtk-greeter): lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings to configure
  1. Set up default greeter in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf:
    [Seat:*]
    ...
    greeter-session={slick-greeter, lightdm-gtk-greeter, ...}
    For more options, see here.
  2. Reload with sudo systemctl restart lightm and test with dm-tool switch-to-greeter.