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Make Ubuntu Login Screen a Browser, Using the lightdm-webkit-greeter

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Hi all,     This is a small and simple post for Ubuntu users, Those who hates the default Ubuntu login screen and wish to change it. Not a little change, we can make it a browser, that shows a webpage as login screen, so that we can easily design a login screen or use an html login screen available on web.     Ubuntu’s default login screen is ‘unity-greeter’. This is a part of ‘lightdm’, the display manager of Ubuntu. So we are achieving this replacement by browser, by just replacing the ‘unity greeter’ with the ‘lightdm-webkit-greeter’. By the following steps: Changing the theme Install ‘lightdm-webkit-greeter : By just executing: sudo apt-get install lightdm-webkit-greeter Replace ‘ unity-greeter ’ with ‘ lightdm-webkit-greeter ’  Navigate to /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/  t here you will find some configuration files of lightdm. open ‘ 50-unity-greeter.conf ’, and change ‘ unity-greeter ’ to ‘ lightdm-webkit-greeter ’. Now we are don...