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We have a package - lightdm-slick-greeter - in the MX Test Repo. It is a replacement for the usual greeter that lightdm uses.

It needs a configuration set up for it, and that can best be done with lightdm-settings. lightdm-settings is not in any of our repos. Installing it from a .deb throws a dependency error for python3-xapp.

(It also needs a manual change made to /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.)

Is there a way to untangle this please? Perhaps add the missing things to the test repo, and then make them a dependency of lightdm-slick-greeter?

Chris

So it's in the MX-19 repos as slick-greeter. I downloaded and installed slick-greeter_1.2.6-1_amd64.deb from Bullseye with no problems (an older version is in Buster).

Don't know what to do with it now...

I'll see about lightdm-settings - but when I backported (by request) slick-greeter from buster, lightdm-settings wasn't available in debian at all. It's still only in Unstable. It may be the easiest way to configure Slick-Greeter settings but obviously not a hard Depends:

It's not something I need or even want, but as things are, installing it can leave a user looking at a blank screen on next boot. Maybe we should remove it?

Chris

Lightdm-settings has just been uploaded to the MX17/18 Test repo. Here are the deb file & the python3-xapp dependency (which has been in Test for awhile) Note that the Launcher is titled Login Window
Near as I can tell lightdm-settings is a Mint fork of lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings to be used with their slick-greeter LightDM fork. There's nothing wrong with having these available in the Test repo.
Moreover, I installed slick-greeter & lightdm-settings in my MX-18 VM. Didn't configure anything. Reboot went normally.

Will that work in MX-19?

Haven't built it for mx-19 yet but it should work if I do. Don't know what advantages it would have,

I installed it, and all seemed to go well. Not sure how or why to switch, but curious.

Why switch?
It handles HiDPI automatically, while the gtk greeter is set for 16 pixel icons, those are really tiny on a 15.6 inch 3840x2160 display.

Sorry for the necro-post.... has anyone succeeded with getting slick-greeter to function on MX? I followed the process that works with other Debian/ Devuan and arch distros... only to fail here a end up in terminal mode rather tha xwindows.

Yes, I use slick-greeter. But I can't say much about it. In /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf I added the greeter that was all.

Thank you... I'll see if I missed that step.

Edit: Sure enough, I forgot that step. Thank you, again!