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

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On 17.02.2015 21:47, Sophoklis Goumas wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Simon Steinbeiß <simon at xfce.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 18:47:10 +0200
>>
>> 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.
>>
> 
> Your first hypothesis must be correct as:
> 
> $ ls -ldR /usr/share/themes/Xfce-dusk/
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 11 02:23 /usr/share/themes/Xfce-dusk/
> $ ls -ld /usr/share/themes/Xfce-dusk/
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 11 02:23 /usr/share/themes/Xfce-dusk/
> $ ls -lR /usr/share/themes/Xfce-dusk/
> /usr/share/themes/Xfce-dusk/:
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 11 02:23 gtk-2.0
> 
> /usr/share/themes/Xfce-dusk/gtk-2.0:
> total 8
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5292 May 21  2013 gtkrc
> $
> 
> I guess then I need to create a gtk3 version of Xfce-dusk.
> 

$ grep ^theme-name /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf
theme-name=Xfce-dusk

$ rpm -qf /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf
lightdm-gtk-1.8.6-3.fc21.x86_64

$ lightdm-gtk-greeter-1.8.6/configure --help | grep gtk2
  --with-gtk2             Use gtk+-2.0 instead of gtk+-3.0