How to Remove White Dot From LightDM Login Screen Ubuntu 13.04

This simple guide is going to show you how to remove/disable white dots from the LightDM login screen in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail. There  are two methods to remove white dots from the LightDM login screen:

Method – 1 :

Open terminal by hiting CTRL+T then run the following command below:

These command-line will allowing user lightdm to create a connection to the Xserver

sudo xhost +SI:localuser:lightdm

Switch to user lightdm in terminal by running these command:

sudo su lightdm -s /bin/bash

Disable draw grid in unity greeter:

gsettings set com.canonical.unity-greeter draw-grid false

Method – 2:

The second method to removing white dot from LightDM using the popular ubuntu configuring tool “Ubuntu-Tweak”:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak

Launch ubuntu tweak from dash menu then navigate to : Tweaks – Login Settings – unlock – turn off draw grid.

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