[22:41] <droid2> I am wondering where in the configuration files is where you set the  default theme the desktop manager lightdm is supposed to uses when startx? I did a find and all i have for greeter files is /etc/pam.d/lightdm-greeter nothing in there looks to be a setting for a theme like ambiance which is set by default?
[22:43] <TheMuso> droid2: Do you mean the actual greeter used, or the actual UI theme?
[22:43] <TheMuso> The UI theme depends on the greeter in use.
[22:43] <droid2> there is no greeter section in the lightdm.conf
[22:43] <droid2> by default
[22:44] <droid2> UI theme not the actual login page/session after you do that when your in the lightdm desktop manager
[22:44] <droid2> Without going thru the appearence gui
[22:44] <droid2> of the settings
[22:44] <droid2> there must be a configuration file for it some where that its held in?
[22:46] <TheMuso> Depends on the greeter.
[22:46] <TheMuso> Unity-greeter uses gsettings, and I think its theme is hard-coded. GTK greeter I think uses conf files similar to lightdm itself.
[22:48] <droid2> ok but in my cases i have lightdm so are they hardcoded or in a config file.... and if there hardcoded what is the program that sets this
[22:51] <jbicha> droid2: are you using lightdm-gtk-greeter or unity-greeter?
[22:53] <droid2> I mean i see all the themes under /usr/share/themes/ and an index.theme file for most of them but what sets the lightdm to uses one over the other i don't see anything in the config files under gnome or lightdm in /etc . And would it be under an /etc/X11 i would think it would be a configuarion file of the desktop or windows manager
[22:53] <droid2> How do i know that ?
[22:55] <droid2> I mean in the current theme index.theme file i have a line like this
[22:55] <droid2> IconTheme=ubuntu-mono-dark
[22:55] <droid2> so i am assuming maybe the ubuntu unity greeter confused
[22:56] <droid2> ??
[23:03] <droid2> humm i did search the system and all the unity i have is under /usr no config files under /etc
[23:04] <droid2> then ps -A for unity gives me http://pastebin.com/J7qH5cqk
[23:07] <droid2> Though when i man for unity i  don't get any options i can see to set this as well as  see also unity-panel-service so kind of wondering how to set the theme ?
[23:07] <droid2> And how the appearence gui dropdown box is setting this
[23:19] <droid2> http://pastebin.com/n1P0nKA0
[23:22] <jbicha> droid2: it might be easier to use lightdm-gtk-greeter if you want customization
[23:22] <droid2> so searching i do have unity-greeter but i don't have any strings like  lightdm-gtk-greeter
[23:24] <jbicha> sudo apt install lightdm-gtk-greeter
[23:24] <droid2> i just man the unity-greeter and it say's something about it is configured in the lightdm.conf file but all i see when i go to /etc/lightdm.conf file is lightdm-autologin  no greeting setting
[23:26] <droid2> I understand i can uses alternative my point is i want to beable to understand how this unity one is working ... i mean i can set it thru the appearance settings pretty easilly so kind of wonder?
[23:29] <droid2> I looked a little farther and i  did searches for lightdm only 2 programs but in the man page there was references to dm-tool so i looked there but that didn't have a setting really for the theme more for locking system , switching users,...etc
[23:32] <droid2> Also kind of confused is ligtdm part of gnome because i have /etc/gnome files as well as programs  http://pastebin.com/tXNtNkkP
[23:34] <droid2> Some of which are running like gnome-keyring ,gnome-session , gnome-termina ,...etc how can to desktop managers be running on the same computer or partially parts of each ... i don't have the gdm so its using the lightdm but still gnome-session won't it be using lightdm-session so CONFUSED
[23:39] <droid2> and yes i have unity-greeter.desktop which has the X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=unity-greater and i think this is where one set the greeter and restarts lightdm
[23:41] <droid2> But either way i think the greeters are only for login not for themes and  customization when your already logged in?