macOS look for Ubuntu MATE

After spending hours (days!) troubleshooting the lightdm webkit greeter which would just show a mouse cursor on a black screen, I decided to start from scratch on my home machine. Re-installed Ubuntu MATE, configured lightdm webkit greeter and got ... the same result. Just by chance I noticed the greeter on my laptop screen, which usually has the lid closed ... d'oh ... This is the hard way to find out that the webkit greeter only uses a single monitor. Found the relevant info searching the net: Need to get the display IDs using xrandr , HDMI-3 in my case Modify /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf : Add display-setup-script=xrandr --output HDMI-3 --primary to the [Seat:*] section. Done!

Finally found some time to work on the page. Installed virtual machine and configuring and downloading ... configuring and downloading ... Somewhat sad to learn that things got much easier. I may need to "downgrade" the configuration on my everyday PC...

About a your ago, looking for a Linux distribution which can be easily customized to look like macOS, I found Ubuntu MATE which seems to be the only Ubuntu distribution left supporting the Mac-style global menu. After much time spent customizing I thought it was time to retrace my steps using a fresh Ubuntu MATE 18.10 installation in a virtual machine and share my experience. Just need to start now... Check out  Making Ubuntu MATE look like macOS .