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A couple of things related to this package:

• If you upgraded from version 1.2.1 to 1.2.2, check the /etc/lightdm.conf and replace the "slick-greeter" to "lightdm-slick-greeter" in line "greeter-session" (should be line 110 if not close to that line) since the change was not done automatically, newer installations shouldn't have that problem but I will check out; this should fix the issue of not loading the greeter while starting, you might have to do this via a terminal session (CTRL+ALT+F1-F6), after that, it should work as intended. My apologies on this particular issue

• This is a fork of the unity-greeter on Ubuntu (lightdm-unity-greeter as it appears here on AUR) and many options on the PKGBUILD were copied and tested as much as possible from there, if you think that there is a different or better option for compiling, you can email me with some options and I will consider them before copying here.

• Don't forget to manually make the change on the lightdm.conf file to use this greeter in case the installation doesn't make the change automatically (the name of the executable in the xsession folder it's called "lightdm-slick-greeter" with no quotes). You can check the LightDM article here on the wiki for more information

• Although a fork of it, this package has nothing to do with the lightdm-unity-greeter, so please don't request to make this package a conflicting one with that (unity-greeter on AUR relies on a patched version of lightdm as well, which conflicts with the original lightdm), also I suggest you not to compile this package with the patched lightdm-ubuntu since I cannot guarantee that it may work

I have used slick greeter successfully in the past. However with this install in lightdm.conf; “lightdm-slick-greeter” and “slick-greeter” in the “greeter-session” produces the output of “[LightDM] contains unknown option greeter-setting.” with “lightdm —test-mode —debug”. Currently lightdm-gtk-greeter works. I double checked spelling and syntax. Any suggestions?

U can apply this patch: git apply /path/to/file.patch

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index b092f58..dcb2351 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -2,24 +2,14 @@

pkgname=lightdm-slick-greeter
 _pkgname=slick-greeter
-pkgver=1.2.8
+pkgver=1.2.9
 #_pkgver=master.mint19
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc='A slick-looking LightDM greeter'
 arch=(i686 x86_64)
 url="https://github.com/linuxmint/${_pkgname}"
 license=(GPL3)
-depends=(
-    cairo
-    freetype2
-    gtk3
-    libcanberra
-    libxext
-    lightdm
-    pixman
-    python
-    xorg-server
-)
+depends=(gtk3 lightdm python)
 optdepends=('numlockx: enable numerical keypad on supported keyboard')
 makedepends=(
     intltool

I suggest using the following URL in the source array:

https://github.com/linuxmint/slick-greeter/archive/1.2.8.tar.gz

That URL is visible upstream at https://github.com/linuxmint/slick-greeter/releases behind the "tar.gz" zipper icon just below the version number.

This will remove the issue of failing the validity check on each upgrade.

slick-greeter-master.mint19.tar.gz at https://github.com/linuxmint/slick-greeter/archive/master.mint19.tar.gz was updated to 1.2.8 and now doesn't match the required sha256sum anymore.

Required: 51a1adec0c88544691e28f850af38f4a3fbe4d5afa4ab5323524fc71894724f1

Current: e15f64f742e143bb03ad7207c6e32e5d8135a53ae665221f5ee320788a5e6186

Package install now fails with: ==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!

@Sam-Burgos : The lightdm user account seems to be expired.

Nov 10 13:28:07 warbler systemd[1]: Starting User Manager for UID 974...
Nov 10 13:28:07 warbler systemd[41448]: pam_unix(systemd-user:account): account lightdm has expired (account expired)
Nov 10 13:28:07 warbler systemd[41448]: PAM failed: User account has expired
Nov 10 13:28:07 warbler systemd[41448]: user@974.service: Failed to set up PAM session: Operation not permitted
Nov 10 13:28:07 warbler systemd[41448]: user@974.service: Failed at step PAM spawning /usr/lib/systemd/systemd: Operation not permitted
Nov 10 13:28:07 warbler systemd[1]: user@974.service: Failed with result 'protocol'.
Nov 10 13:28:07 warbler systemd[1]: Failed to start User Manager for UID 974.

What did the trick for me: sudo usermod --expiredate= lightdm

After that and restarting lightdm the configuration in /etc/lightdm/slick-greeter.conf worked fine.

@Sam-Burgos : No, it doesn't work for me either. I tried everything. Doesn't simply work. I did a clean install of lightdm and slick-greeter again after uninstalling and tried to set the "draw-user-backgrounds = false" but no luck.

@Sam-Burgos : nothing seems to work here for me. Already set on "Off" for the value backgrounds.

@dhruvkelawala, @monsieurzik: after a couple of tests I have checked your issue and it seems that somehow this has a weird behaviour, so far what I have been able to do is add the line "draw-user-backgrounds=false" (or turn-off the value "Draw User Backgrounds" in lightdm-settings) and then it allows me to see the values as intended, check if that works ok for both of you, since at least for me it works after performing this

Unable to change background. Remains Black with Grid(even when grid is disabled). Numlock doesn't get activated(numlockx installed). All in all, no settings get applied, neither with lightdm-settings nor manually editing slick-greeter file.

lightdm-slick-greeter 1.2.7-1 : no way to change the background and remove the grid. Even when /etc/lightdm/slick-greeter.conf is edited in a shell.