Removing the white dots from lightdm on 15.04

Question

I have tried the approach that I have used before on earlier releases of Ubuntu but on 15.04 I have found that the following commands are not working.

sudo xhost +SI:localuser:lightdm

sudo su lightdm -s /bin/bash

gsettings set com.canonical.unity-greeter draw-grid false

When I run the last command I get the following:

(process:5354): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: Error spawning command line 'dbus-launch --autolaunch=1af246dec6324e1ca014e1c3c06da71c --binary-syntax --close-stderr': Child process exited with code 1

Can anybody suggest what I'm doing wrong, or ways that I could diagnose what is failing?

Cheers

Sadi · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-07T11:26:00.973

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Install Ubuntu Tweak. It still works although it hasn't been updated for a while. You can download the deb package from here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-tweak
Start Ubuntu Tweak, go to Tweaks > Startup > Login Settings. There you should be able to "Unlock" Root privileges and select some LDM Preferences like "Draw Grid".

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edited May 07 '15 at 11:26

answered May 07 '15 at 11:13

Sadi

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COmmand line is good but GUI is easier and has done the trick. – Mitty May 07 '15 at 12:48
What GTK theme are you using? – Waldir Leoncio Mar 12 '16 at 06:46
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@Waldir Leoncio, it's Vertex Light – Sadi Mar 12 '16 at 10:27

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered May 07 '15 at 10:46

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According to the (German) Wiki of ubuntuusers.de, starting from Ubuntu 12.04 you need to use the dconf-editor GUI tool. You start it just as you did with gsettings set before: Giv the 'lightdm' user account access to your GUI (xhost), switch to that user account (su) and start dconf-editor

xhost +SI:localuser:lightdm
sudo su lightdm -s /bin/bash
dconf-editor

answered May 07 '15 at 10:46

Henning Kockerbeck

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this results in the error that prompted the question – lofidevops Sep 07 '15 at 10:37

Removing the white dots from lightdm on 15.04

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