Bug#1010247: ITP: greetd -- minimal and flexible login manager daemon
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Marc Dequènes (Duck) <Duck@DuckCorp.org>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
* Package name : greetd
Version : 0.8.0
Upstream Author : Kenny Levinsen <kl@kl.wtf>
* URL : https://git.sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/greetd
* License : GPL-3
Programming Lang: Rust
Description : minimal and flexible login manager daemon
greetd makes no assumptions about what you want to launch. Use gtkgreet
to launch sway if you want a fully graphical session, or use agreety to
launch a shell if you want a drop-in replacement for agetty(8) and
login(1). If you can run it from your shell in a TTY, greetd can start
it. If it can be taught to speak a simple JSON-based IPC protocol, then
it can be a greeter.
Most login managers historically assumes X11. The most compatible one is
probably GDM but unless you use GNOME you may wish to have a more
lightweight solution. Lightdm worked well until recently despite not
having Walyland support itself but it is now afflicted by this bug:
https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/6655
The last release dates 2018 and there is no recent coding activity.
I think greetd's architecture properly decouples authentication and the
login UI and makes for a good replacement for Wayland users.
I was thinking about maintaining it into the Rust team but I have not
joined yet.
Regards.
\_o<
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Marc Dequènes
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