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grassmunk
cannot found lightdm-webkit-greeter on [apt] repository
the packet lightdm-webkit-greeter* is not available in apt repositories ... but an equivalent is available lightdm-gtk-greeter
Yeah, this something I've noticed too. I haven't had the time to work on the greeter theme yet; I'm still working on the other components of the theme first in preparation for the next release.
For onlookers and possible path forward: current directions recommend lightdm-webkit-greeter which depends on deprecated webkit1 is not being supported in Ubuntu going forward. WebKitGTK2 exists and Antergos has a greeter that uses it but now that Antergos is discontinued, the development may stall, and it has fairly consistent security issues
So it may be worth investigating one of the recommended greeters on the lightdm README possibly both GTK based and Qt based (For the experimental KDE support) greeters in the new instructions.
Honestly, the webkit greeter was always kinda a hack and not very good. The SDDM greeter is more accurate but I'm not a fan of telling people to install SDDM just to get a nice greeter.
The future might have us writting our own based on https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LightDM/Development/ and using GTK but we'll have to research what that would take. I'd be okay removing the current greeter and removing it from the instructions if its no longer applicable.
OK. That's fine with me too.
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‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Monday, May 18, 2020 5:13 PM, grassmunk [email protected] wrote:
Honestly, the webkit greeter was always kinda a hack and not very good. The SDDM greeter is more accurate but I'm not a fan of telling people to install SDDM just to get a nice greeter.
The future might have us writting our own based on https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LightDM/Development/ and using GTK but we'll have to research what that would take. I'd be okay removing the current greeter and removing it from the instructions if its no longer applicable.
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Just as a heads-up for anyone reading this, the LightDM theme created for the XFCE4-screensaver will also theme the Lightdm-GTK-Greeter. It looks pretty good. No need to install the webkit greeter.
