Ah, dholbach brought this to my attention. Unity Greeter now uses gsettings for its settings instead of an /etc conf file. So you can just ship a gsettings override for the theme!
** Changed in: unity-greeter Status: Confirmed => Fix Released ** Changed in: unity-greeter (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/884366 Title: Theme is not customizable by downstream (derivative) distros To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-greeter/+bug/884366/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs