I can't change the appearance with the lightdm GTK+ interface configuration

Hi @TimeShift12,

Ubuntu MATE is not using lightdm-gtk-greeter by default. UM 20.04 is using slick-greeter (has a working configuration tool in control center), UM 20.10 has switched to arctica-greeter (to my knowledge, no working configuration tool yet).

You may want to check this thread for arctica-greeter configuration tips. Hope this helps.