Lightdm icons

[paralis]

On 16.10, I have noticed lightdm doesn't use the icon theme used on the desktop (as far as I can tell it uses the ubuntu-mono-dark theme).
Is there any way to use the same theme on both the desktop and lightdm?

Thank you

Eric

[Dennis N]

You can try and edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf (below) or appropriate file could be lightdm-gtk-greeter-ubuntu.conf in some desktop environments.
Find the section [greeter] in that file (see below)


[dmn@Kayleigh ~]$ cat /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf
[greeter]
background=/lib/plymouth/themes/xubuntu-logo/wallpaper.png
theme-name=Greybird
icon-theme-name=elementary-xfce-dark
font-name=Droid Sans 10
xft-antialias=true
xft-dpi=96
xft-hintstyle=slight
xft-rgba=rgb
show-indicators=power;~session;~language;~a11y;~power;
show-clock=true
clock-format=%I:%M %p
keyboard=onboard


Be sure to remove the comment character (#) from any line you want to be active.

Note: Some distros and desktop environments have a GUI configuration utility for this. Check for it first.

System used for above: Xubuntu 14.04

[paralis]

Thank you for your quick answer.
I tried that to use the Papirus icon theme I use already on the desktop:


icon-theme-name=/home/myuser/.icons/Papirus But, despite a noticably longer boot time, icons are still from the ubuntu-mono-dark theme, so no change. It does not work.

Eric

[Perfect Storm]

You properly need the icon themes installed at /usr/share/icons (globally) to get it to work. I don't think it will work if you sset it locally.