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    [โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (5 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 (4 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 (3 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!