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Fixing a crushing Light Display Greeter other than the service

Posted on Nov 8, 2020

Boot from Live USB

mount root partition

$ mount /dev/sda3 /mnt

Enter a chroot to the root directory, here in / mounted as /mnt

$ arch-chroot /mnt

Then execute this command

$ nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

Toggle the available greeters, this is to fix situations where one greeter crushes such that you can’t login to the system.

Gtk-greeter bit more stable than the other, but lacks major functionalities seen in the others like webkit2 and patheon.

1. Available Greeters

$ ls -1 /usr/share/xgreeters

2. Gnome GTK

greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter

user-session=gnome

3. WebKit2

greeter-session=lightdm-webkit2-greeter

user-session=webkit2

4. Cinnamon

greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter

user-session=cinnamon-session-cinnamon