Changing greeter-session breaks lightdm

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I wanted to install the mint version of lightdm-greeter and stumbled upon this topic here: https://forum.antergos.com/topic/8809/option-to-choose-greeter/4

I installed https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lightdm-slick-greeter/ from the AUR and then changed the greeter-session to be “lightdm-slick-greeter” in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf, then rebooted.

While booting it said lightdm couldn’t start or create a session, so I had to roll back that change, but what did I do wrong? or is antergos not compatible with mints greeter?

@clowntie said in Changing greeter-session breaks lightdm:

greeter-session to be “lightdm-slick-greeter” in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf,

needs to be slick-greeter not lightdm-slick-greeter

as you can see:

@joekamprad Thanks that worked!

you are welcome, this is my default DM also, as i like the very slick and clean view!

@joekamprad it’s the only one that actually looks nice to be honest, yeah

and you can style as you want with lightdm-settings

@joekamprad I did already, thanks though! I also figured out the wallpaper has to be located in the shares folder or else it can’t access it during boot, because the user isn’t unlocked yet.