Display of overlay grid is not configurable

The linked branch contains code that should mostly solve this bug. I couldn't get it to actually work, but that's likely because I don't know how to hack on this project in particular or Vala in general. Hopefully it'll serve as a good start, or else hopefully someone can provide more details about why it didn't work.

To test, I did the following:

./autogen.sh --prefix=/some/local/prefix
make
make install
vi $prefix/etc/lightdm/unity-greeter.conf # set draw-grid to false
$prefix/sbin/unity-greeter --test-mode

Thanks Scott, I've applied this to the trunk version. The patch was all correct with one change:
 user_list.draw_grid = (bool) get_config_value ("greeter", "draw-grid", "true");
=>
 user_list.draw_grid = get_config_value ("greeter", "draw-grid", "true") == "true";

This bug was fixed in the package unity-greeter - 0.2.0-0ubuntu1

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unity-greeter (0.2.0-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
    - Improve scrolling animation (LP: #844050)
    - Select menubar when F10 is pressed
    - Fix Orca not starting when enabling screen reader (LP: #850554)
    - Add a keyboard indicator (LP: #783827, LP: #834487)
    - Always focus new windows
    - Check version of Vala when compiling
    - Update logo for 12.04 (LP: #892394)
    - Use default invisible character in password dialog (LP: #834878)
    - Darken indicator bar
    - User smaller grid size
    - Put end-stops on user list scrolling
    - Only fade out user labels that can't fit in completely (LP: #883260)
    - Center dots (LP: #872800)
    - Add translator comments (LP: #855385)
    - Add option to disable dots (LP: #883908)
    - Only redraw parts of the screen that have changed
    - Don't run the greeter if can't connect to daemon and not in test mode
      (LP: #876754)
 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:56:21 +1100

Guys. Did I miss something? I still have this bug.
I still have the dots. Precise 12.04 Beta 2 updated.

@hanyowsky: This bug's goal wasn't removing the dots for you. If you want to disable them, open dconf-editor and navigate to com/canonical/unity-greeter, then disable the option "draw-grid".

@Fitoschido thanks for the reply.
That is what I tried to do: I opened dconf editor and set the value of draw-grid to false (unchecked).
Restarted lightdm but in vain, the dots were still there.

I appended draw-grid = false in unity-greeter.conf , restarted lightdm but in vain.

None of the settings in com/canonical/unity-greeter can be changed per or by a user
Bug 981335