elementary OS Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for developers and users of elementary OS and applications. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this community
How can I transform the ugly Elementary OS Freya login screen back into the beautiful Luna login screen. That, for me being picky with design, would put me off using Elementary. I like the Operating System but the new login screen just puts me off.
EDIT: Added images
Current ugly login screen
Old beautiful login screen
Unfortunately, there is no way to get the old screen. Both screenshots show pantheon-greeter but in different versions - and it's not possible to install older versions on Freya.
It's sad you'd consider to leave elementary OS because of the new greeter though.
pantheon-greeter. Greeters already are some kind of theme for LightDM. It's possible to write your own greeter or update the pantheon-greeter back from Luna to work with Freya, but there is no easy solution to the problem.
You would have to download the code to the old greeter and compile it yourself, though I cannot guarantee that it would actually work.
Perhaps, if you are proficient enough with coding, you can fork and update the old greeter to work with newer releases.
