I can't log in after installing lightdm (SOLVED)

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btw:
I just confirmed that the
lightdm-webkit2-greeter
does indeed not work
not “just like that” anyway

cannot log in when using that

installing
lightdm-slick-greeter
and configuring that one and using the same background images that the video used
will likely give very similar visual results

and it will work :wink:

He (the video creator) did both a nice and terrible job with his video.
the result looks great - but it is very hard and tedious to follow
especially when you do not really know what he is doing and why
and what certain actions are supposed to achieve.

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No matter where i search,

…i had a discussion some time ago, but ppl insist on this outdated, abandoned fuzz they just see for 5 seconds. I don’t get it.

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… there is no way for him (OP) to know that - he just finds a visually appealing video and wants to recreate the look

but the greeter lightdm-webkit2-greeter being in the repos but not working is an issue

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50/50 , the video is two years old.

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that is also something that newbees tend to not be aware of
who suspects a repo package to be dysfunctional?

It’s no big deal for me (for example).
It took me about a minute to see that it didn’t work
and instantly revert.

new users … it’s different :wink:

Let’s not clutter the thread - he’s got a problem to solve. :wink:

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Imho lightdm is dead. It doesn’t work properly with xfce (as mentioned here). The last change happened 3 years ago, I don’t quite understand why this otherwise outstanding distro delivers it.

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What? → Release 1.32.0 · canonical/lightdm · GitHub

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As I’ve said before… YouTube How To videos are mostly useless.

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lightdm is not light-locker (which you have a problem with) and it is not the lightdm-webkit2-greeter which was a culprit here
it works just fine and ain’t dead

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Hi, I changed “greeter-session=lightdm-webkit2-greeter” to “greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter”, but nothing has changed when I enter the password and press enter the program does not respond.

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I had you revert what was done in the video, and you said you did what was done in the video.
And I installed that greeter myself to confirm - and reverted it because it did not work.

At least the greeter, the login screen, should now be looking and behaving as it was before you changed that.
Is it?

Lets see what is actually in your configuration file for lightdm:

grep -v ^# /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

This will only print the lines that are not starting with a # mark
the uncommented lines - the ones which are not default.

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You have uninstalled lightdm-wbkit2-greeter and deleted the config file /etc/lightdm/lightdm-webkit2-greeter.conf ?

and you have installed lightdm-gtk-greeter and lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings ?
You are shure not having old config files left ?

This is the default:

light-locker
lightdm
lightdm-gtk-greeter
lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings
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This is link of screen

drive .google.com/file/d/1rz30F6NXeibohS-jNaPHqTpH1LykHkwD/view?usp=drivesdk

(When I try to post a link I get message - “Sorry, you can’t include links in your posts.”)

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No i have not uninstalled and deleted, but I installed lightdm-gtk-greeter without lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings.

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I just deleted the lightdm-webkit2-greeter.conf

After removing lightdm-webkit2-greeter.conf from /etc/lightdm/ , my screen is blinking

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You still have the wrong greeter in your file

look:
greeter-session=lightdm-webkit2-greeter

is what I read there

you did not change it back to

greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter

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No, I changed it

drive .google.com/file/d/1s0LMB2uAscog1D9hDIGUC35-TpniEB56/view?usp=drivesdk

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You change it in a comment starting with # which effectively gets ignored.

Use your arrow keys and scroll down.

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Sorry for my mistake. I fixed it and everything works fine. Thanks very much :slightly_smiling_face:

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Sorry for my mistake. I fixed it and everything works fine. Thanks very much :slightly_smiling_face:.