Slick-greeter

Jul 20, 2023

Slick-looking LightDM greeter

A slick-looking LightDM greeter.

Features

  • Slick-Greeter is cross-distribution and should work pretty much anywhere.
  • All panel applets are embedded. No external indicators are launched or loaded by the greeter.
  • No settings daemon are launched or loaded by the greeter.
  • This greeter supports HiDPI.
  • Sessions are validated. If a default/chosen session isn’t present on the system, the greeter scans for known sessions in /usr/share/xsessions and replaces the invalid session choice with a valid session.
  • You can take a screenshot by pressing PrintScrn. The screenshot is saved in /var/lib/lightdm/Screenshot.png.
  • The default configuration is stored in dconf under the schema x.dm.slick-greeter.
  • Users can create and modify /etc/lightdm/slick-greeter.conf, settings in this files take priority and overwrite dconf settings.


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