Ubuntu – find alternative greeters for LightDM

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Is there a place where I could find a list of LightDM greeters and where I could download them?
I would very much like to see some custom made greeters so I can fully customise my Ubuntu 🙂
I know that one of the lead designers in Ubuntu once showed an animation with imps in the greeter, now that was amazing but I want something different.

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The Wikipedia page contains a reasonably accurate list of available greeters. In Ubuntu the following greeters are in the archive (package name in brackets):

Unity Greeter (unity-greeter)
GTK+ Greeter (lightdm-gtk-greeter)
KDE Greeter (lightdm-kde-greeter)
WebKit Greeter (lightdm-webkit-greeter)
RazorQt Greeter (razorqt-lightdm-greeter)

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dpkg -L lightdm

lists you all the files installed by the lightdm package.

If you want to have a look at the source code of lightdm use

apt-get source lightdm

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At least since Ubuntu 12.04 there is now an option session-cleanup-script which can be added to the [SeatDefaults] section of /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf. /usr/share/doc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.gz is the documentation:

# session-cleanup-script = Script to run when quitting a user session (runs as root)

Do not forget chmod +x yourscript to give your script executing permission.

After changing a value in lightdm.conf it takes only effect after lightdm is restarted. You can either reboot or login to a console (Ctrl+Alt+F1) and run sudo restart lightdm.

(Thanks to Krytarik who posted this answer in http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1918649)

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