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[Charlie Kravetz <charlie-tca@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since
this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work,
I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here.

This is important to all flavours outside of Unity. Getting this bug
fixed means Xubuntu will be able to use a custom wallpaper and theme.

Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/845549

Title:
  Do not ship /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf

Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Hi,

  Currently, the lightdm-gtk-greeter binary package ships /etc/lightdm
  /lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf as a conffile. This is nice for users,
  because they'll get the usual dpkg prompt on upgrades. Unfortunately,
  it's not that great for derivatives where this greeter is used and a
  custom theming is needed.

  I tested quickly, and the gtk greeter is still able to start, and work
  without this config file. So could you please stop shipping it (*and
  handle gracefully its removal in maintainer scripts* -- sorry for the
  highlight, but you didn't do that for /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf for
  0.4.x -> 0.9.x upgrades...).

  This would allow derivatives to ship their own config file to theme
  the greeter (currently, I can't theme it for Xubuntu without either
  doing some not-so-great things with dpkg-divert, or worse, sed, or
  forking the greeter just to change its settings...).

  Thanks.

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