LightDM-Module-Greeter

A minimal but highly configurable single-user GTK3 greeter for LightDM. Fork of lightdm-mini-greeter

Features

• Change rendering system to handle alpha channel.
• Add background-image display option
• Add module system
• Config backward compatible with mini-greeter

Module features

• Text from script output
• Refresh every given amount of time
• Exec script on click

Example config - preview

Simple module

[module/name]
# Style was loaded from default `greeter-theme`
text = "Lorem ipsum"

For more read default .conf file.

Install

You will need automake, pkg-config, gtk+, & liblightdm-gobject to build the project.

Grab the source, build the greeter, & install it manually:

./autogen.sh
./configure --datadir /usr/share --bindir /usr/bin --sysconfdir /etc
make
sudo make install

Run sudo make uninstall to remove the greeter.

Configure

Once installed, you should specify lightdm-module-greeter as your greeter-session in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf. If you have multiple Desktop Environments or Window Managers installed, you can specify the one to start by changing the user-session option as well(look in /usr/share/xsession for possible values).

Modify /etc/lightdm/lightdm-module-greeter.conf to customize the greeter. At the very least, you will need to set the user.

You can test it out using LightDM's test-mode:

lightdm --test-mode -d

Keyboard layout

If your keyboard layout is loaded from your shell configuration files (.bashrc for example) then it might not be possible to type certain characters after installing lightdm-mini-greeter. You should consider modifying your Xorg keyboard configuration.

For example for a french keyboard layout (azerty) you should edit/create /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf with at least the following options:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "system-keyboard"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
        Option "XkbLayout" "fr"
EndSection

License

GPL-3