apognu
Is the project deprecated?
Hi, the question is as the title suggests, don't wanna stress anybody or anything, just looking for a new loginmanager/greeter and tuigreet looks great, however I haven't found a lot of recent activity from the dev on the repo. I wouldn't wanna set it up just to figure out in three months that it's deprecated and that I should switch.
Looks like it. The main issues, scaling on multiple monitors, being overlayed my system messages and adjustments to the UI haven't been addressed in a while and there hasn't been a commit for over half a year. Only @apognu can confirm of course.
This is likely a project moving on free time, as indicated by apognu's activity in other repositories, seemingly owned by the company he works at. As such, it doesn't mean this project's "deprecated", especially when the last commit is 6 months ago. (Which isn't even that long ago, come on!)
It's now 9 months since the last commit with a good amount of open issues and features. Any updates @apognu ?
Issues with scaling on multiple monitors will probably drive me to change login managers. Project does not seem to be being actively maintained anymore. Project isn't depecrated, but bug resolution is moving too slow for me to continue using it as part of my system.
Issues with scaling on multiple monitors will probably drive me to change login managers. Project does not seem to be being actively maintained anymore. Project isn't depecrated, but bug resolution is moving too slow for me to continue using it as part of my system.
What will you switch to then?
Issues with scaling on multiple monitors will probably drive me to change login managers. Project does not seem to be being actively maintained anymore. Project isn't depecrated, but bug resolution is moving too slow for me to continue using it as part of my system.
What will you switch to then?
been using ly works great, has same issues with multi monitor scaling as it doesnt use a display manager though https://codeberg.org/fairyglade/ly
It's not officially deprecated, but the developer does seem to have lost interest in maintaining it, given the lack of commits for a year and the number of PRs sitting open ignored.
Of course someone could fork it to continue development —making a build that incorporates said PRs would probably be a low hanging fruit— but then, the question is ultimately if anyone actually cares enough to do that. I'm not a rust developer so it's not going to be me...
And of course, even if someone did that, it would be a crapshoot as to whether any of the distro packagers actually noticed and switched to the better version, anyway.
...Even with all that being said, to the point that @MrRulf actually seemed to be concerned about, it's actually unlikely this will truly be obsolete anytime soon. Even if it's not receiving any new functionaly, there's nothing going to actually break what's already here.
It's not as if it has any dependencies that are likely to move out from under it.
Unless greetd itself changes its IPC format, nothing is going to break it. And greetd, though not abandoned, is quite a slow-moving project itself.