Changing from slick greeter to lightdm-gtk greeter

Issues & Assistance Newbies
1

Is there a safe way to remove slick greeter and return to lightdm-gtk greeter?
I uninstalled slick-greeter but found that I had no login screen and had to go into root maintenance to reinstall slick-greeter again.

2

@Ercouper

  1. Install lightdm-gtk-greeter 
    sudo pacman -S lightdm-gtk-greeter
  1. Edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf to change
greeter-session=lightdm-slick-greeter

to

greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter

You can use a text editor of your choice. Like

    sudo xed /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

(If you are using Cinnamon)
or

    sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

(Console editor, but works on all RebornOS desktops)

  1. Then Save, exit, and reboot

  2. If everything is fine after reboot, you can uninstall lightdm-slick-greeter

3

Thanks, that worked perfectly.
The mistake that I originally made was when editing the lightdm.conf file I had greeter-session=lightdm-gtk but left off -greeter at the end. :neutral_face:

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