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I have been playing around with Pretty Greeter login window based on lightdm-webkit-greeter:

https://github.com/jfbrazeau/lightdm-web...ty-greeter

I'm wondering if I have missed something setting it up. Here is what I did:

1) Create a new folder named "pretty" (or any other name) in:

Code:
/usr/share/lightdm-webkit/themes/

2) Unzip "pretty greeter" files to the above folder.

3) Open file:

Code:
index.theme

and change the session from gnome to xfce4:

Code:
[theme]
name=Pretty Greeter
description=Pretty Greeter Theme
engine=lightdm-webkit-greeter
url=index.html
# session=gnome
session=xfce4

4) Open file:

Code:
/etc/lightdm/lightdm-webkit-greeter.conf

and change the theme-name and webkit-theme from Linux Lite to Pretty:

Code:
[greeter]
background=/usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.png
# theme-name=LinuxLite
# webkit-theme=linuxlite
theme-name=Pretty Greeter
webkit-theme=pretty
font-name=Ubuntu 11
xft-antialias=true
xft-dpi=96
xft-hintstyle=slight
xft-rgba=rgb

5) Reboot

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When testing display managers it might be better to create a keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Backspace that will allow to quit the GUI instead of rebooting (I think it was explained by Misko_2083 on another thread some time ago, I just can't find the link):

Code:
/etc/default/keyboard

Code:
XKBOPTIONS="terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"

On a related note, here is excellent Misko's tutorial abount installing Mint Display Manager:

https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/index...opic=703.0

I will try it tonight but it looks like you did the steps correctly. What does it display when you rebooted? the tty1?

No, not TTY1. It displays user icons floating in the air over the mountains. Once you click on a user icon it jumps. I'm not much into graphics effects, booting all my distros without the splash screen and watching the commands scrolling down, but I find this particular greeter theme with animated icons kind of neat and I decided to keep it for now. You can replace the default "mountain" theme file:

Code:
/usr/share/lightdm-webkit/themes/pretty/img/bg.jpg

with LL theme file from here:

https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/membe...d-artwork/

The full album can be downloaded here:

http://imgur.com/a/bhML9

Kirkx

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Kirkx