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Some notes about Lightdm and the actual packaging/dependency situation in Fedora Linux.

After an upgrade from F38-39 Lightdm was not starting anymore (See discourse link below). https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/what-happend-to-lightdm-i-tougtht-it-is-light-installed-160mb/98430

There are a lot of tutorials in the internet where shows how to change the config Files of the Lightdm Display Manager. Example = https://christitus.com/lightdm-configuration/

This tutorials are mostly working well on Debian based Distributions. Fedora goes a different approach.

Installing lightdm in Fedora Linux

The Display Manager has to be enabled or disabled if you want to change to a other one.
Check which Display Manager is active with

grep 'ExecStart=' /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service
The result looks like this = ExecStart=/usr/sbin/gdm

Install the new DM like sudo dnf install lightdm-gtk

Disable & enable:

systemctl disable gdm

systemctl enable lighdm