UNITY-GREETER(1)

✨ NAME ✨

unity-greeter — the LightDM greeter for the Unity desktop 💖 (yes bestie, it lives in the General Commands Manual section, section 1, we love a classic)

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

unity-greeter [ OPTIONS ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so picture this: Unity Greeter is a LightDM greeter made for the Unity desktop. It's the whole login-screen moment, the main character of your boot sequence 👑

Here's the tea though — it gets launched by the LightDM daemon itself, but only if you've configured it that way in lightdm.conf. So no, it's not normally something a user runs by hand. It's giving background actor who's secretly running the show.

BUT. If you do wanna peek at it, you can run it in a test mode with the --test-mode option 🧪✨ That lets you vibe-check the interface without having to install an updated version first. Iconic, honestly.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -v, --version — spill the release version, bestie. just tells you which one you've got 🍓
• --test-mode — runs the greeter in test mode, right inside your current X session 🧚 perfect for lowkey checking the interface without committing to a whole update
• -?, --help — shows the help options. the classic cry for directions, and honestly? valid 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• lightdm

ngl this one's short and sweet, but that's the whole point — it's a greeter, not a whole ecosystem, and it knows it 💀

UNITY-GREETER(1) — dated June 21, 2012, so yeah she's an elder but she's still serving 🌸 thanks for reading bestie, go touch some grass (or a terminal), ily, bye 🫶💖✨