Hello,
I have installed lightdm-gtk-greeter and settings, removed eos-lightdm-gtk-theme and configured the first one with the image and screen position … I get a black screen with a little window, what did I miss to do?,
Thanks for your advice
In lightdm.conf do you have the following:
greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter
I don’t know if I understand you but in ‘nano lightdm.conf’ there is notthing, it is empty.
lightdm.conf is located in /etc/lightdm/
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And maybe you have additional files in the folder /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/
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you need to switch the used greeter manually it is a config line inside /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
under the section:
[Seat:*]
you will find:
greeter-session=...
this line needs to be changed to:
greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter
and you need to restart the DM to aply the use of it or reboot…
after this you will be able to also use lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings tool…
and as mentioned you may have /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/10-eos-slick.conf so called dropin config it will overwrite the default one in case so best in case you do not want to use the defaut EndeavourOS setup for lightdm is to remove the packages… this will also remove the dropin file, and you can us ethe default or create your own dropin
yes and uninstall eos-greeter theme packages:
yay -R eos-lightdm-slick-theme eos-lightdm-gtk-theme
if you do not need these and want to setup your own…
And make sure no conf files left under /etc/lightdm.conf.d/
Reboot … after saving the changes and commenting on some entries where you indicated …
Now I get 1/2 configuration, the login screen moved to where I configured it but not the image, for this, a black screen, and the worst thing is that the passwd do not work, I can not login into the system.
using lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings gui?
And make sure no conf files left under /etc/lightdm.conf.d/ ?
and the config part you show is not the complete file or is it ? Problems removing eos-lightdm, Xfce4 - #8 by Won
This snipped would be a legit dropin but not a replacement for the default config itself…
sudo mv /etc/lightdm.conf /etc/lightdm.conf.d/10_custom.conf
sudo pacman -S lightdm
sudo systemctl restart lightdm
in case you replaced default config with the dropin… (not changing values)
the config part you show is not the complete file or is it ?
yes it is … but the point now is how to get login again into the system – the passwd do not work (?)
I give up, I drop the matter … this has been set up here in a very convoluted way – I will reinstall the system, thanks for trying …
could be locked caused by to often enter it wrong accidently ?
sudo faillock would show that… and also you can not login using malfunction DM you should be able to login over TTY
Keybinding:
Ctrl Alt F4
to remove the lock:
faillock --user yourusername --reset
Lightdm similar as greetd and some others using a separate greeter are not 100% easy setup DMs…
But not impossible 
Ok, the black screen still there when restart for login, and this is the configuration that I have in LightDM GTK:
the red arrow just to show up that my image is there; it looks to me that something else need to be removed in order to allow my image to come up and not the blackness …(?)
Image needs to be under a path lightdm has permission to read, it can not be inside users home… you could put it into /usr/share/backgrounds/ per example…
In addition jpeg could be a problematic filename extension PNG or jpg would be commonly used
Everything is broken again… someone should work on that app much better here … I’ve never had so many problems with it on any operating system.
I’ll be back next year, I’m not installing the system anymore for the moment… besides this issue there’s the wine problem (the other thread). Thanks for your comments in helping.
sure… may consider self reflection.
The default setup is working and there is nothing not working on the lightdm setup, used setup is following defaults.
On Archbased you can do everything also the wrong thing, it is always first get the info and if you do not understand ask someone before changing things.
In this case, you simply give up to early ?
With app you talk about lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings? thats not developed at EndeavourOS
Even lightdm itself not.
But to have them work properly, it needs to understand the underlying setup and configuration.
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As config wise is best start from scratch… If you use gtk-greeter from scratcj lightdm picks that greeter remenants end in black? Also wallpaper are in root?