qt-lightdm-greeter

qt-lightdm-greeter is a simple frontend for the lightdm displaymanager, written in c++ and qt5.

It has it's roots in the razor project, where it was developed under the name razor-lightdm-greeter. When razor was merged into LXQt it was renamed to lxqt-lightdm-greeter.

As of september 2015 I have renamed it to qt-lightdm-greeter and cut it's ties to LXQt. This was primarily because LXQt recommends SDDM as its displaymanager and because the application had very little integration with LXQt.

qt-lightdm-greeter sports a razor-qt logo as a reminder of it's origin.

Installing

Make sure you have cmake, gcc, qt5 and liblightdm-qt5 (and lightdm) installed on your system

Do

git clone https://github.com/surlykke/qt-lightdm-greeter.git
cd qt-lightdm-greeter
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make 
sudo make install

How to enable qt-lightdm greeter

Update or insert in(to) your /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf, in the SeatDefaults section, this line:

greeter-session=qt-lightdm-greeter

Configure qt-lightdm-greeter

The file /etc/lightdm/qt-lightdm-greeter.conf allows for a few configurations of qt-lightdm-greeter (background-image, positioning of loginform). The configuration options are documented in that file.