Transparent Login Box

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

Make greeter transparent

Having used Ubuntu since 12.10 > 14.04 LTS I prefer a transparent greeter vs the default UM greeter. I posted both here and Ubuntu Forum and found a solution on Ubuntu Forum Here are the steps that worked for me: re-install unity-greeter [computer had Ubuntu 16 installed with Mate desktop] mkdir /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d create file 99_myconfig.conf containing [Seat:*] greeter-session=unity-greeter sudo must be used to insure proper ownership Upon reboot I was ab…