Testers wanted for LightDM Display Manager
by Skaendo from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5N7A3)
I would like to add LightDM to SBo for the upcoming 15.0 release, but would like to know if there are any issues with them. I have been using LightDM for a few years now having found a SlackBuild on GitHub from Philip van der Hoeven, with some modifications. Now with the addition of elogind I had to fix it and updated it for the new SBo templates.
Display managers are some of the most complicated things to build. Just look at GDM and SDDM. Nightmares. But this one is relatively easy. Of course with the original authors script made it extra easy for me. :D
There are 3 SlackBuilds plus one dependency; lightdm, lightdm-gtk-greeter and lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings (python-distutils-extra for the settings). They take like 5 minutes to build.
The "theme" is really basic, just a login box and a top panel on a black background. I think that a wallpaper gets used, sometimes. I've seen the Xfce wallpaper when I tested it on Xfce and I think it was from the root account. But, theming is supported and can be done with the settings manager or via CSS. There is a sample CSS in the installed docdir. I don't really want to deviate much from the upstream defaults, but if someone was to come up with a really simple Slackware based theme I could be persuaded to hack it in.
Other "greeters" can be supported, some of which come with their own (separate) settings managers and could possibly be supported in the SlackBuild. I use "slick-greeter" from Linux Mint in my Cinnamon DE, I just need some time to work it out since lightdm is a dependency for the greeters, but lightdm needs to be built specifically for the greeter first.
Like I said, the original SlackBuild I was using was made by Philip van der Hoeven, so if anyone knows how to get in touch with him it would be great if he would contact me via email (or here) so I may ask for formal permission to use his script.
Anyone who could test them out for me can find them here (with the python-distutils-extra dep): https://github.com/skaendo/hackbuilds
Remember, this is for -current/15.0 and will not work properly on 14.2.
Thanks!
Display managers are some of the most complicated things to build. Just look at GDM and SDDM. Nightmares. But this one is relatively easy. Of course with the original authors script made it extra easy for me. :D
There are 3 SlackBuilds plus one dependency; lightdm, lightdm-gtk-greeter and lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings (python-distutils-extra for the settings). They take like 5 minutes to build.
The "theme" is really basic, just a login box and a top panel on a black background. I think that a wallpaper gets used, sometimes. I've seen the Xfce wallpaper when I tested it on Xfce and I think it was from the root account. But, theming is supported and can be done with the settings manager or via CSS. There is a sample CSS in the installed docdir. I don't really want to deviate much from the upstream defaults, but if someone was to come up with a really simple Slackware based theme I could be persuaded to hack it in.
Other "greeters" can be supported, some of which come with their own (separate) settings managers and could possibly be supported in the SlackBuild. I use "slick-greeter" from Linux Mint in my Cinnamon DE, I just need some time to work it out since lightdm is a dependency for the greeters, but lightdm needs to be built specifically for the greeter first.
Like I said, the original SlackBuild I was using was made by Philip van der Hoeven, so if anyone knows how to get in touch with him it would be great if he would contact me via email (or here) so I may ask for formal permission to use his script.
Anyone who could test them out for me can find them here (with the python-distutils-extra dep): https://github.com/skaendo/hackbuilds
Remember, this is for -current/15.0 and will not work properly on 14.2.
Thanks!