Hi Paul, On Fr 10 Jul 2026 13:08:06 CEST, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
Hello Mike, Thanks for caring!Ah, only some greeters create that directory: [sunweaver@sunobo ~]$ dpkg -S /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/lomiri-greeter, arctica-greeter-guest-session, arctica-greeter-remote- logon, arctica-greeter: /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.dThanks for the information, I use slick-greeter and that does not. Other people will maybe use the default greeter. The better place of this directory and logic would be in the lightdm-package.
Those packages don't create that directory, it is more that they place files at the location and that requires creating the directory.
But I agree, /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/ could be created by the lightdm package as an empty directory.
However, as site admin, simply create that dir and drop config files snippets into it.I've created that dir and tested with a filename "90-changes.conf". But my code is ignored. Lomiri- and arctica-greeter are also using this type of filenames.
The files definitely need to end with .conf suffix. Except from that, the file needs to be in ini file format, don't forget to put a [section] into that file.
If you are willing to share your test file snippet I can take a look whether it is syntactically correct. (Also lightdm should print stuff on stderr if a config file's syntax is incorrect).
Please close the bug again, if that solves your challenge.I will, when it works ;-)
I triple checked the code and also from experience, lightdm parses what's in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/. If your settings to land, then they are either overridden somewhere else or syntactically incorrect.
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