Ubuntu has been using GNOME's display manager, GDM, till 11.04. From 11.10, it will be switching to a new display manager, i.e. LightDM. They say LightDM would be easily themeable, it is a lot lighter as reflected by the name and would match Unity better than GDM.
Here are a few suggested mockups for LightDM in 11.10:
Oneiric Installation
On your testing install of Oneiric, go to a Terminal and run this command:
Once installed, you would be presented with a choice to choose your default display manager, choose LightDM.
Natty Installation
LightDM is also available for Natty via PPA for testing purposes. For installation, go to a Terminal and run these commands:
You would be presented with a choice to choose your default display manager, choose LightDM.
If you want to revert to GDM, run this command and choose 'GDM' when prompted:
Reporting Bugs
Remember, LightDM doesn't look beautiful or even anything close to beautiful right now. It would keep improving with time until the final release of 11.10. Bugs are expected in LightDM at this stage of development so if you find some, you can report those here.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm
Here are a few suggested mockups for LightDM in 11.10:
On your testing install of Oneiric, go to a Terminal and run this command:
sudo apt-get install lightdm lightdm-theme-gnome
Once installed, you would be presented with a choice to choose your default display manager, choose LightDM.
LightDM is also available for Natty via PPA for testing purposes. For installation, go to a Terminal and run these commands:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:lightdm-team/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lightdm lightdm-theme-gnome
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lightdm lightdm-theme-gnome
You would be presented with a choice to choose your default display manager, choose LightDM.
If you want to revert to GDM, run this command and choose 'GDM' when prompted:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm
Remember, LightDM doesn't look beautiful or even anything close to beautiful right now. It would keep improving with time until the final release of 11.10. Bugs are expected in LightDM at this stage of development so if you find some, you can report those here.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm
