I found that on Mate 19.10 we have lightdm and lightdm-settings packages installed, and also the ui of managing lightdm has changed, but when searching apt I found there is also lightdm-gtk-greeter, lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings and lightdm-autologin-greeter, are these packages different than the one installed on 19.10 ?
LightDM is a free and open-source X display manager that aims to be lightweight, fast, extensible and multi-desktop. It can use various front-ends to draw User Interface, also called Greeters .
LightDM GTK+ Greeter is a highly configurable login screen reminiscent of the classic GDM configuration.
LightDM GTK+ Greeter Settings is a small GUI written in Python which lets you modify various LightDM GTK+ Greeter settings, such as the theme, font, background, window position and more, settings which otherwise can only be set by modifying the greeter configuration files.
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The greeter used since around Ubuntu MATE 17.10 is Slick Greeter, which is a fork of Ubuntu's Unity Greeter (16.04.2) maintained by the Linux Mint team to work on any distribution.
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