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Bug#1010247: ITP: greetd -- minimal and flexible login manager daemon



Hi,

On Wed, 27 Apr 2022 15:19:59 +0900 =?UTF-8?Q?Marc_Dequ=C3=A8nes_=28duck=29?= <duck@duckcorp.org> wrote:
> 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.

how is the packaging going? Are you still intending to package it? Is there
already a git repository on salsa?

Thanks!

cheers, josch

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