LightDM GTK+ Greeter FOR LINUX

LightDM GTK+ Greeter is an open source, cross-platform and free software project implemented in C around the GTK+ toolkit, and designed from the offset to act as a greeter for the open source LightDM login manager. It will blend with any desktop environment that uses the GTK+ toolkit, including GNOME, Xfce, Cinnamon, MATE or LXDE.

LightDM is a free and open source display manager/login screen used by default in the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system and designed to act as a greeter or login manager for the X11 display server.

LightDM includes a wide variety of features, such as support for guest logins, support for multiple accounts, support for multiple desktop sessions, support for remote logins, as well as a modern interface.

Key Features:

• Support for guest logins


• Support for multiple accounts


• Support for multiple desktop sessions


• Support for remote logins


• Modern interface

Supported Desktop Environments:

The Light Display Manager supports the Unity, GNOME, KDE, Elementary, and Razor-Qt desktop environments. Besides GTK+, LightDM also features Unity, KDE, Razor, Pantheon, and WebKit greeter front-ends.

LightDM GTK+ Greeter is a graphical application, it’s actually an add-on for LightDM, but it still requires users to install it like any other program, either by using the pre-built binaries for your GNU/Linux distribution or through the source tarball distributed on Softpedia.

Installation Instructions:

• Download the latest version using the dedicated download section above


• Save the archive somewhere on your computer


• Extract its contents using an archive manager utility


• Open a Linux Terminal app

In the terminal emulator, type the ‘cd’ command followed by the path to the extracted archive files (e.g. cd /home/softpedia/lightdm-gtk-greeter-1.9.0) and type the ‘configure && make’ command to configure/optimize and compile the program.

Lastly, type the ‘make install’ command as root or the ‘sudo make install’ command as a privileged user to install it system wide. If it’s the only greeter, it will be used automatically next type you restart your computer.