Change Session In Lightdm

For debian based systems install lightdm by typing sudo apt install lightdm for arch based systems install lightdm by typing sudo pacman s lightdm.

Change session in lightdm.

Ubuntu wiki arch wiki debian wiki. Sudo dpkg reconfigure some installed display manager in this command replace some installed display manager with one of the display managers installed on your system for example gdm3 lightdm sddm lxdm etc. This command is run as the user and needs to exec the command passed in the arguments to complete running the session. Session wrapper is a the command to run for a session.

After running this command it will list all installed display managers. Change lightdm greeter in ubuntu 20 04. As lightdm is already available in standard ubuntu repository. Stopped light display manager.

Apr 26 04 46 04 arch systemd 1. Lightdm uses various front ends to draw login interfaces which are usually referred to as lightdm greeters. So to change the default display manager use this command. Note the default is lightdm session so you should chain to this if you need to override this setting.

Lightdm is a cross desktop display manager it was built as a relatively light weight and highly customizable alternative to gdm it s developed at canonical by robert ancell and all contributors are required to assign their copyright to canonical through a contributor license agreement that allows proprietarization. Next if you already have a display manager installed. Then you must look to switch it. Use this if you need to do special setup for a user session.

We have discussed it in detail in the article here. Therefore issue the following in terminal sudo apt update sudo apt install lightdm. This will teach you how to modify lightdm to choose a default desktop environment theme autologin and even a vnc connection.