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Package request: lightdm-mini-greeter

Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2020 2:19 pm
by jeffreyC
It is a single user lightdm greeter, it only has a password field. The developer has made a Debian Stretch amd64 package, so build should be easy.

Since many MX users are the only user of their computer this would be an option to remove the inconvenience and delay of typing in their username every time.

https://github.com/prikhi/lightdm-mini-greeter

Re: Package request: lightdm-mini-greeter

Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2020 4:42 pm
by dolphin_oracle
FYI, the current lightdm greeter should be showing the default user's login name. I haven't typed my name in forever....

Re: Package request: lightdm-mini-greeter

Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2020 5:15 pm
by oops
dolphin_oracle wrote: Fri Feb 07, 2020 4:42 pm FYI, the current lightdm greeter should be showing the default user's login name. I haven't typed my name in forever....
... Yes, and a Grub password with an automatic login give the same thing (or almost, for me, and more secure ) .

Re: Package request: lightdm-mini-greeter

Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2020 6:27 pm
by Stevo
Seems like anyone that really wants to build a deb just needs to follow the developer's recipe, too:

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sudo apt-get install build-essential automake pkg-config fakeroot debhelper \
    liblightdm-gobject-dev libgtk-3-dev

cd lightdm-mini-greeter

fakeroot dh binary

sudo dpkg -i ../lightdm-mini-greeter_*.deb