Transparent Login Box

[Kri5]

HI!

does anyone know how to make the login box transparent, if at all possible?
I was thinking of something along the lines of the Ubuntu login screen.

[lah7]

Sadly, I don’t think it’s possible. The LightDM GTK+ Greeter login box is a dialog box but without the window borders.

It might be possible to install the Ubuntu login screen (unity-greeter), but I wouldn’t advise doing so due to needing a lot of dependencies which could break something later.

[Kri5]

Thanks, I thought as much. I did look at installing the Unity Greeter but decided it was probably too much work for me, not that confident and don’t want to break anything as you say.

[lah7]

Although, in 3 simple steps, you can install Unity Greeter quite easily:

Make greeter transparent

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