Graphical root prompt

Recently the greeter changed from lightdm-gtk-greeter TO lightdm-slick-greeter for the default greeter installed by Calamares. So unless you manually installed lightdm-gkt-greeter it won’t be there per:

So if you want to use lightdm-gtk-greeter, you need to install:

sudo pacman -S lightdm-gtk-greeter lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings

Then edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

scroll down past “General Configuration”, down to “Seat Configuration” and then to the line
[Seat:*]
About sixteen lines below this is the “greeter-session” key (they call the config settings “keys”)
#greeter-session=example-gtk-gnome
The # indicates a comment, so this key is disabled and it uses the default of lightdm-gtk-greeter

What you may see is:
greeter-session=lightdm-slick-greeter

If so, comment that statement out by putting a # in front of it
#greeter-session=lightdm-slick-greeter

save the file.

The way it works, if all “greeter-session=” entries are commented out, it uses lightdm-gtk-greeter as a default.

If there is a “greeter-session=” with no preceding #, it uses that.

If you want to use the installed lightdm-slick-greeter make sure there is an entry of
greeter-session=lightdm-slick-greeter.
without a # in front.

you might want to also do a

sudo systemctl status lightdm.service

and make sure lightdm shows enabled. If it isn’t, enable it.
sudo systemctl enable lightdm.service

See here for further information on lightdm-slick-greeter

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