A minimal but highly configurable single-user GTK3 greeter for LightDM.

Inspired by the SLiM Display Manager & LightDM GTK3 Greeter.

Eventually this is will present a more customizable interface:

• Randomized Background Wallpapers
• Configurable language/session info? (lightdm provides this already?)

Open Feature Requests

Right now you can:

• log in
• hide the Password: label & customize the text
• hide the password input's cursor
• set the size of the login window, the font & every color.
• set a background image.
• use modifiable hotkeys to trigger a shutdown, restart, hibernate or suspend.

Arch Linux users can just install the lightdm-mini-greeter package from the Arch User Repository:

packer -S lightdm-mini-greeter

Otherwise, grab the source, build the greeter, & install it manually:

./autogen.sh
./configure --datadir /usr/share --bindir /usr/bin --sysconfdir /etc
make
sudo make install

You can then specify lightdm-mini-greeter as your greeter-session in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf. If you have multiple Desktop Environments or Window Mangers installed, you can specify the one to start by changing the user-session option as well(look in /usr/share/xsession for possible values).

Modify /etc/lightdm/lightdm-mini-greeter.conf to customize the greeter. At the very least, you will need to set the user.

You can test it out using LightDM's test-mode:

lightdm --test-mode -d

Or with dm-tool:

dm-tool add-nested-seat

Uninstall with:

sudo make uninstall

You can submit feature requests, bug reports, pull requests or patches on either github or redmine.

If you like Mini-Greeter, please consider packaging it for your distribution.

• Use indentation and braces, 4 spaces - no tabs, no trailing whitespace.
• Declare pointers like this: char *p1, *p2;, avoid: char* p1;.
• Function braces should be on their own line.
• If/else/while/do should always use braces and indentation.
• Use g_critical for irrecoverable user errors, g_error for programming errors.

When in doubt, check surrounding code.

GPL-3