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    Do you have Misconfigophobia or other OS-related diasases? ๐Ÿค” (lemmy.world)
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    [โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    Like how I used GDM-Settings on Pop_OS without knowing GDM-Settings is for OLD gdm, and now I have to use LightDM because I can't find the config files that are broken in GDM that cause it to have no styling and be black font with trails anytime something moves?

    (and yes I have reinstalled it, gnome-shell, pop-theme, etc even with forcing dpkg to re-write over config files. I've manually gone through and deleted config files and reinstalled to redownload them, I cannot get GDM back to even default GDM let alone the pop version.)

    [โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    See this is the exact sort of problem I always had with different flavours of Ubuntu. Iโ€™d always muck up my install with misconfigured shit and it would be too much time and effort to fix so Iโ€™d have to nuke the whole OS every now and then ๐Ÿ˜œ

    [โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    I honestly just wish there was some really good GDM docs I could find to make it easy to reset it to default.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    The Arch wiki may have some ideas for you - tl;dr is that GDM uses a global dconf db over in /etc/ and this might be the root of your problem (these configs might not get cleaned up with a --purge?) I'm a LightDM user so best I can do to help: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GDM#dconf_configuration

    [โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    I appreciate the help, I did use dconf editor but I haven't manually cleared these out and updated dconf I'll try this out, worst case GDM is still busted.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Update, I have made GDM unusable (not just broken styling), progress!

    [โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Wonderful update