diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/x11/display-managers/lightdm-greeters/mini.nix b/nixos/modules/services/x11/display-managers/lightdm-greeters/mini.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ba8151a60f20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/x11/display-managers/lightdm-greeters/mini.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
+
+with lib;
+
+let
+
+  dmcfg = config.services.xserver.displayManager;
+  ldmcfg = dmcfg.lightdm;
+  cfg = ldmcfg.greeters.mini;
+
+  xgreeters = pkgs.linkFarm "lightdm-mini-greeter-xgreeters" [{
+    path = "${pkgs.lightdm-mini-greeter}/share/xgreeters/lightdm-mini-greeter.desktop";
+    name = "lightdm-mini-greeter.desktop";
+  }];
+
+  miniGreeterConf = pkgs.writeText "lightdm-mini-greeter.conf"
+    ''
+    [greeter]
+    user = ${cfg.user}
+    show-password-label = true
+    password-label-text = Password:
+    show-input-cursor = true
+
+    [greeter-hotkeys]
+    mod-key = meta
+    shutdown-key = s
+    restart-key = r
+    hibernate-key = h
+    suspend-key = u
+
+    [greeter-theme]
+    font = Sans
+    font-size = 1em
+    text-color = "#080800"
+    error-color = "#F8F8F0"
+    background-image = "${ldmcfg.background}"
+    background-color = "#1B1D1E"
+    window-color = "#F92672"
+    border-color = "#080800"
+    border-width = 2px
+    layout-space = 15
+    password-color = "#F8F8F0"
+    password-background-color = "#1B1D1E"
+
+    ${cfg.extraConfig}
+    '';
+
+in
+{
+  options = {
+
+    services.xserver.displayManager.lightdm.greeters.mini = {
+
+      enable = mkOption {
+        type = types.bool;
+        default = false;
+        description = ''
+          Whether to enable lightdm-mini-greeter as the lightdm greeter.
+
+          Note that this greeter starts only the default X session.
+          You can configure the default X session by
+          <option>services.xserver.desktopManager.default</option> and
+          <option>services.xserver.windowManager.default</option>.
+        '';
+      };
+
+      user = mkOption {
+        type = types.str;
+        default = "root";
+        description = ''
+          The user to login as.
+        '';
+      };
+
+      extraConfig = mkOption {
+        type = types.lines;
+        default = "";
+        description = ''
+          Extra configuration that should be put in the lightdm-mini-greeter.conf
+          configuration file.
+        '';
+      };
+
+    };
+
+  };
+
+  config = mkIf (ldmcfg.enable && cfg.enable) {
+
+    services.xserver.displayManager.lightdm.greeters.gtk.enable = false;
+
+    services.xserver.displayManager.lightdm.greeter = mkDefault {
+      package = xgreeters;
+      name = "lightdm-mini-greeter";
+    };
+
+    environment.etc."lightdm/lightdm-mini-greeter.conf".source = miniGreeterConf;
+
+  };
+}
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/x11/display-managers/lightdm.nix b/nixos/modules/services/x11/display-managers/lightdm.nix
index 9d30155a7234..5beadacdfa93 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/x11/display-managers/lightdm.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/x11/display-managers/lightdm.nix
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ in
   # preferred.
   imports = [
     ./lightdm-greeters/gtk.nix
+    ./lightdm-greeters/mini.nix
   ];
 
   options = {
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/display-managers/lightdm-mini-greeter/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/display-managers/lightdm-mini-greeter/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ef80aa00563f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/display-managers/lightdm-mini-greeter/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, autoreconfHook, pkgconfig, lightdm, gtk3 }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "lightdm-mini-greeter-${version}";
+  version = "0.3.2";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "prikhi";
+    repo = "lightdm-mini-greeter";
+    rev = version;
+    sha256 = "1g3lrh034w38hiq96b0xmghmlf87hcycwdh06dwkdksr0hl08wxy";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook pkgconfig ];
+  buildInputs = [ lightdm gtk3 ];
+
+  configureFlags = [ "--sysconfdir=/etc" ];
+  makeFlags = [ "configdir=$(out)/etc" ];
+
+  postInstall = ''
+    substituteInPlace "$out/share/xgreeters/lightdm-mini-greeter.desktop" \
+      --replace "Exec=lightdm-mini-greeter" "Exec=$out/bin/lightdm-mini-greeter"
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "A minimal, configurable, single-user GTK3 LightDM greeter";
+    homepage = https://github.com/prikhi/lightdm-mini-greeter;
+    license = licenses.gpl3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ mnacamura ];
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index e842e896dbe2..b56f1a0cb5b4 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -18020,6 +18020,8 @@ with pkgs;
     inherit (xfce) exo;
   };
 
+  lightdm-mini-greeter = callPackage ../applications/display-managers/lightdm-mini-greeter { };
+
   slic3r = callPackage ../applications/misc/slic3r { };
 
   slic3r-prusa3d = callPackage ../applications/misc/slic3r/prusa3d.nix { };