This might be the openSUSE way of doing things. Apparently the way to install and use a new greeter with lightdm is to modify the lightdm.conf file. The problem is there doesn’t seem to be any lightdm.conf file anywhere on my Tumbleweed installation. One of the alternatives available in /etc/alternatives is the default-greeter. I tried changing that to the slick-greeter zypper installed but all that did was remove the configuration from the gtk greeter I am using now. Can anyone explain how to configure lightdm to use the slick-greeter. Google doe not have any useful suggestions, except for one port on this forum which was closed two days ago after it didn’t get any useful answers.
lightdm on openSUSE is using exactly the same configuration files as somewhere else.
So create it if you really need it. Although the better way is to set only those parameters you want to change in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d
I am quite sure similar question was asked on this forum not so long ago. This forum has search engine.
A quick search online…
https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/18c6q9h/how_can_i_enable_lightdmslickgreeter/
The solution I found was to remove via zypper the other greeter lightdm was using. Then the system configured the new greeter . I still don’t understand why the new greeter wasn’t being used after being installed.
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