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Login and Lock Screen greeter for elementary OS and Pantheon, using LightDM

Greeter

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Building and Installation

You'll need the following dependencies:

  • gnome-settings-daemon >= 3.27
  • libaccountsservice-dev
  • libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev
  • libgranite-dev >= 5.5.0
  • libgtk-3-dev
  • libhandy-1-dev >= 0.90.0
  • liblightdm-gobject-1-dev
  • libmutter-6-dev
  • libx11-dev
  • meson
  • valac

Run meson to configure the build environment and then ninja to build

meson build --prefix=/usr
cd build
ninja

To install, use ninja install

sudo ninja install

Testing & Debugging

Run LightDM in test mode with Xephyr:

lightdm --test-mode --debug

You can then find the debug log in ~/.cache/lightdm/log