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login manager and lightdm greeter

commands to determine your login manager / greeter

your session

loginctl list-sessions

session info and service (display manager)

`loginctl show-session <session_number> --all

the display manager is what handles the greeter eg: lightdm

You can set the default greeter by changing the [Seat:*] section of the LightDM configuration file, like so:

/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

[Seat:*]
...
greeter-session=lightdm-yourgreeter-greeter
...

lightdm_wiki

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