[SOLVED] Cannot change the lightdm-unity-greeter background

Hi.
So I installed the lightdm-ubuntu and lightdm-unity-greeter (which needed lightdm-ubuntu) from the AUR, and when I read both the wiki and the web, they said that I needed to install the lightdm package, not lightdm-ubuntu (when I install lightdm-ubuntu, it conflicts with lightdm, forcing me to remove it). So I installed it, used it, saw the nice login screen, but I would like to remove the dots showing up over the background AND change the background. I read that there is a config in the /etc/lightdm folder, but when I tried finding it, it was not there.
ls /etc/lightdm showed me:
keys.conf lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf users.conf
lightdm.conf lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf~
lightdm.conf.pacsave lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf.pacsave
I do not want to have the background of the login the same as my background when I'm logged in, so I don't think gnome-settings-daemon-ubuntu and accountsservice-ubuntu should be needed. And even if they are, I would like to find a way to change it without installing those packages, since I can't install them easily -- this computer is a school computer and is connected through a filter, which unnecessarily blocks many sites (like say, eclipse.org and gnu.org, but that is not the point), and freedesktop.org is one of them.
I would appreciate if anyone knows how to do that.
Thanks.
EDIT: Solved. faidoc's answer was priceless.
Last edited by Technicolor (2012-10-04 13:54:05)

hi everybody from the Indian Ocean , especially Rodrigues Island-Republic of Mauritius !
I am now running a Archlinux Vm with 3 desktop environemnts such as Gnome, Mate and Xfce4 . I am encounting a conflict file issue between lightdm , lightdm-Ubuntu and lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf !
The system says that lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf creates a conflict and , when installing Unity as per " chenxiaolong :https://github.com/chenxiaolong/Unity-for-Arch" or through the Wiki method I am always stuck ! I don't even have the " /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/com.canonical.unity-greeter.gschema.xml" ! The nearest I've got is " com.canonical.unity-gtk-module.gschema " ! This means that even lightdm-ubuntu-greeter cannot be installed ......What must I do ?

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