{"id":4781,"date":"2015-03-17T16:49:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T16:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4781"},"modified":"2015-03-17T16:49:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T16:49:12","slug":"restore-default-login-screen-ubuntu-14-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/03\/restore-default-login-screen-ubuntu-14-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Restore The Default Login Screen in Ubuntu 14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"restore<\/a><\/p>\n

After installing another desktop environment (e.g. KDE, MATE, Cinnamon) in Ubuntu Unity, the default login screen may be replaced after restart. <\/p>\n

Here’s the quick tip for those who want to restore the default login screen, Unity Greeter<\/i>, in Ubuntu 14.04 and\/or Ubuntu 14.10, so it looks like:<\/p>\n

\"LXDE-Qt<\/a><\/p>\n

1.<\/b> By default, Ubuntu Unity uses Lightdm display manager to handle its login screen. But installing Gnome Shell<\/i> or Cinnamon Desktop<\/i> also installs the GDM or MDM display manager.<\/p>\n

So you may first run below command in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) to make sure LightDM<\/b> is in use by choosing it from the prompt:<\/p>\n

sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm<\/pre>\n
\"choose-default-display-manager\"<\/a><\/p>\n
2.<\/b> LightDM also supports “themes”, some DEs use LightDM-GTK-greeter<\/i> instead of the default Unity-Greeter<\/i> as its theme.<\/p>\n
The easiest way to restore LightDM theme is:<\/p>\n
Open terminal from the Dash or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, run command to edit (or create) \/etc\/lightdm\/lightdm.conf<\/b>:<\/p>\n
gksudo gedit \/etc\/lightdm\/lightdm.conf<\/pre>\n
If need, install gksu<\/b> from Ubuntu Software Center<\/i><\/p>\n
When the file opens, change its content to (or paste below content)<\/i>:<\/p>\n
[SeatDefaults]
\ngreeter-session=unity-greeter<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\"LightDM<\/a><\/p>\n
Save the file and you’ll see the default login screen at next boot.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After installing another desktop environment (e.g. KDE, MATE, Cinnamon) in Ubuntu Unity, the default login screen may be replaced after restart. Here’s the quick tip for those who want to restore the default login screen, Unity Greeter, in Ubuntu 14.04 and\/or Ubuntu 14.10, so it looks like: 1. By default, Ubuntu Unity uses Lightdm display […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[673,1002,1249],"class_list":["post-4781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-lightdm","tag-lightdm-gtk-greeter","tag-unity-2"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}