How do I remove the dots from the lockscreen in Ubuntu 14.04?

Question

You can remove the dots from the login screen in 12.04-13.10 using this method.

How do you remove the dots from the new lock screen in Ubuntu 14.04?

Answer 1

Manually went into dconf-editor and went to com.canonical.unity.unity-greeter and unchecked the option draw-grid. For some reason, this worked and not the command line answer from before, which I also tried. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

To remove white dots, run the following commands in a Terminal:

sudo xhost +SI:localuser:lightdm
sudo su lightdm -s /bin/bash
gsettings set com.canonical.unity-greeter draw-grid false;exit

Source: http://www.noobslab.com/2014/04/thingstweaks-to-do-after-install-of.html

Answer 3

Just adding this answer (sourced from comments) for easier view. This worked for me on 14.04 LTS for lock screen. Thanks to S Prasanth for the answer

gsettings set com.canonical.unity-greeter draw-grid false

To do the same for login screen, one has to become do it as the lightdm user. Which can be done by the method described by @Fat Mind