diff --git a/fedora-mate-packages.ks b/fedora-mate-packages.ks
index 9b9a273..acfb6bc 100644
--- a/fedora-mate-packages.ks
+++ b/fedora-mate-packages.ks
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ fusion-icon
 fusion-icon-gtk
 @libreoffice
 @networkmanager-submodules
+-lightdm-gtk
+lightdm-gtk-common
+lightdm-gtk2
 
 # FIXME; apparently the glibc maintainers dislike this, but it got put into the
 # desktop image at some point.  We won't touch this one for now.