[LightDM] Is it that lightdm-gtk-greeter will not with Xfce-dusk theme? Why?

[Simon Steinbeiß]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 18:47:10 +0200
Sophoklis Goumas <olspookishmagus at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello, after updating my /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf as follows:
> theme-name=Xfce-dusk
> 
> I don't get to see the desired effect applied.
> 
> Why is it so?

Likely because you're using the gtk3 version of the greeter and Xfce-dusk doesn't support Gtk3.
Alternatively it could be that you have the theme in a not publicly accessible folder (e.g. /home/$user/) hence the greeter cannot read it. Or just messed up file permissions.

Cheers
Simon