LightDM on archlinux wiki page: LightDM
This is how it looks installed on Rocky-8
dnf list installed | grep lightdm lightdm.x86_64 1.30.0-6.el8 @epel lightdm-gobject.x86_64 1.30.0-6.el8 @epel lightdm-gtk.x86_64 2.0.5-1.fc28 @fedora28
Install lightdm packages.
dnf --enablerepo=fedora28 install lightdm
lightdm-gtk-greeter uses a gtk3 css style
emacs /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf & greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter # save & enable the service systemctl enable lightdm.service
The background image is 2560x1080, so you may need to change it.
Also, install the theme lightdm-gtk-clearlooks-grey.
cd /usr/share/pixmaps wget ftp://vasilian.net/Gtk-Themes/enterprise_os_2560x1080.jpg cd /tmp wget ftp://vasilian.net/Gtk-Themes/lightdm-gtk-clearlooks-grey.tar.gz tar -zxvf lightdm-gtk-clearlooks-grey.tar.gz mv lightdm-gtk-clearlooks-grey /usr/share/themes chown -Rv root:root /usr/share/themes/lightdm-gtk-clearlooks-grey chcon -Rv -u system_u -t usr_t /usr/share/themes/lightdm-gtk-clearlooks-grey
Edit the gtk greeter settings.
emacs /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf & [greeter] background=/usr/share/pixmaps/enterprise_os_2560x1080.jpg theme-name=lightdm-gtk-clearlooks-grey icon-theme-name=Bluecurve font-name=DejaVu Sans Condensed:10 #xft-antialias= xft-dpi=96 #xft-hintstyle= #xft-rgba= show-indicators=~host;~spacer;~clock;~spacer;~language;~session;~ally;~power; show-clock=true clock-format=%H:%M:%S keyboard=us position=50%,center 50%,center #screensaver-timeout=
This is from the archlinux days:
on the login page there are some strange accounts: "git daemon user", "xbmc", etc.
It can be fixed by installing accountsservice.x86_64 that will automatically hide them.