Can't change lightdm greeter

I want the lightdm greeter to be (lightdm-slick-greeter) but even after changing the greeter in lightdm.conf file, greeter did not changed its always the default one.

in arch wiki it was mentioned to change (greeter-session=lightdm-slick-greeter), and I have done that.

[Seat:*]
#type=local
#pam-service=lightdm
#pam-autologin-service=lightdm-autologin
#pam-greeter-service=lightdm-greeter
#xserver-command=X
#xmir-command=Xmir
#xserver-config=
#xserver-layout=
#xserver-allow-tcp=false
#xserver-share=true
#xserver-hostname=
#xserver-display-number=
#xdmcp-manager=
#xdmcp-port=177
#xdmcp-key=
greeter-session=lightdm-slick-greeter
#greeter-hide-users=false
#greeter-allow-guest=true
#greeter-show-manual-login=false
#greeter-show-remote-login=true
user-session=cinnamon
#allow-user-switching=true
#allow-guest=true
#guest-session=
session-wrapper=/etc/lightdm/Xsession
#greeter-wrapper=
#guest-wrapper=
#display-setup-script=
#display-stopped-script=
#greeter-setup-script=
#session-setup-script=
#session-cleanup-script=
#autologin-guest=false
#autologin-user=
#autologin-user-timeout=0
#autologin-in-background=false
#autologin-session=
#exit-on-failure=false

and the slick-greeter was installed too.
ls -1 /usr/share/xgreeters/
output:
lightdm-gtk-greeter.desktop lightdm-slick-greeter.desktop

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Maybe search the forum for an answer first? Try following this post:

Want to experiment with Lightdm slick greeter? - General system / Community contributions - EndeavourOS

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Currently the lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings won’t save a new greeter background unless you open it with sudo and use the folder /usr/share/pixmaps for your preferred wallpaper.

You need to make your changes in /etc/lightdm/slick-greeter.conf. Here’s what I’m using:

[Greeter]
background=/usr/share/backgrounds/endeavouros-background.jpg
draw-grid=false
font-name=Noto Sans Regular 10.5
icon-theme-name=candy-icons
play-ready-sound=/usr/share/sounds/Smooth/stereo/desktop-login.oga
show-clock=true
show-hostname=true
show-quit=true
theme-name=Orchis-dark
xft-antialias=true
xft-hintstyle=hintfull

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