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title: "Changing Display Manager (login screen) with Arch Linux"
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category: [english]
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tags: [arch, linux, display manager]
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_Also applies to other distributions based on it, how do you change the display
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manager, aka login screen._
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- `--needed` makes pacman not install packages that are already installed.
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- uncommented line = line that doesn't begin with `#`.
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- to change DM you don't need to reboot, you can also
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`sudo systemctl stop olddm` and `sudo systemctl start newdm`, but this logs
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you out.
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- my personal recommendation is using LightDM if it works for you, otherwise
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sddm. I personally use LightDM, because sddm is missing support for
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`sudo passwd -de user`
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[sddm/sddm#472](https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/472)
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## LightDM gtk greeter
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- `sudo pacman --needed -S lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter accountsservice numlockx`
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Edit the file `/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf` and find the uncommented line that
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starts with `greeter-session=` and change it to
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`greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter`.
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If you have keyboard with [numpad] you might want to enable Num Lock by default
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by finding the uncommented line starting with `greeter-setup-script=` and
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changing it to `greeter-setup-script=/usr/bin/numlockx on`. If there isn't
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uncommented line anywhere in the file, just uncomment one or add it under the
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commented line.
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Then enable it by running `sudo systemctl enable -f lightdm` and reboot.
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## sddm
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- `sudo pacman --needed -S sddm`
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SDDM is simple display manager for all desktop environments and is successor of
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KDM which is the KDE Display Manager.
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To create a config file and enable it for next reboot:
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```
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sddm --example-config | sudo tee /etc/sddm.conf
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sudo systemctl enable -f sddm
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```
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The lines you might want to change are the one starting with `Nucmlock=` and I
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recommend changing it to `Numlock=on` if you have the [numpad]. The other line
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starts with `Current=` and is used to select the current theme. Available themes
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can be seen with `ls /usr/share/sddm/themes`.
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KDE users might also want to install `sddm-kcm` which gives GUI for controlling
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sddm.
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## gdm
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- `sudo pacman --needed -S gdm`
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The last display manager I am mentioning is the Gnome Display Manager and is
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only for Gnome users and I am not so familiar with it and I believe using it is
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just `sudo systemctl enable -f gdm`.
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[numpad]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/numpad
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