Install LightDM Rocks in Your Ubuntu

Last month, at the Desktop Summit, Robert Ancell demoed a 3D animated login screen. He was the developer behind LightDM.

Now you just click on the animated Imps to log in to your desktop. For you who are LightDM/Ubuntu 11.10 fans can grab this LightDM Rocks via PPA. Just run the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lightdm-team/crowd-greeter
sudo apt-get install crowd-greeter
sudo edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

Don't forget to set ‘greeter-session=crowd-greeter’ in [SeatDefaults] section and the last you should restart your computer. Please note that the greeter is not yet stable also you can revert back the settings ’greeter-session’ above back to ‘unity-greeter‘ when there are so many gormless-imps wandering your login screen.