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markasoftware

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Registered: 2014-06-22

Posts: 17

lightDM greeter for a single-user system

I'm interested in using lightDM as my display manager. However, there seem to be a lot of greeters that are focused on a good experience for multi-user systems. All I'm have is a single-user system, so I'm looking for your guy's opinions on what the "best" lightDM greeter is for a single-user system. I want it to:

* Be pretty, even if it must be a bit more heavyweight. I consider "pretty" to mean modern/flat
* Be customizeable, hopefully with at LEAST customizeable colors, and preferably background images
* Have either a very modern/flat icon set, if there are icons at all, or customizeable icons
* Not force me to select my account every time I login, it should automatically "select" my account so all I have to do is enter the password. I *might* budge on this one if the design is *really* good

I'm ok if it has support for multiple users (I'm pretty sure every greeter out there will have that), but I don't want it to reserve too much space on the screen for multiple users, and I want it to still be good with one user. For example, I don't want it to be like crowd greeter, where it's nearly useless without many user accounts

headkase

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Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 2,005

Re: lightDM greeter for a single-user system

See: LightDM.

You are expected to do your own research instead of foist your work onto the community.

loafer

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From: the pub

Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 1,772

Re: lightDM greeter for a single-user system

Why not just test a number of greeters and evaluate which one most suits your use case?  That's the common approach with most things.

You could also try other DMs like LXDM for example, in order to see how they compare.

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