<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi Andre,<br><br></div>There is not a feature to provide a fallback greeter.<br><br></div>What LightDM attempts to do if it fails to start a greeter is to exit and let the OS handle this failure case. In Ubuntu we start a "failsafe X session" to get the user to fix their configuration.<br>
<br></div>We intentionally don't pick another greeter if one fails, since each greeter may have different levels of security access. We also don't provide any greeter with LightDM since that puts a dependency on a specific GUI technology and the daemon is GUI agnostic.<br>
<br>In saying that, I do think there is a case to be able to configure more than one greeter. I think this would be best implemented in lightdm.conf with:<br></div><div>[SeatDefaults]<br></div><div>greeter-session=primary-greeter:secondary-greeter:tertiary-greeter<br>
<br></div><div>i.e. We start secondary-greeter if primary-greeter fails for some reason. If none of the greeters work we exit.<br><br></div><div>File a bug and/or propose a branch!<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,<br>
</div>--Robert<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 July 2013 22:24, Andre Klärner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kandre@ak-online.be" target="_blank">kandre@ak-online.be</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hey guys,<br>
<br>
I love lightdm and am using it exclusively on all my debian machines, but<br>
recently during an OS upgrade I foolishly upgraded Gnome to 3.8 which broke<br>
the lightdm-gtk-greeter. So it took me a while to figure out that my theme<br>
broke the greeter as the engine it uses has a bug in it.<br>
<br>
So my question to you is: is there a feature to provide a fallback greeter<br>
in case the first one exits within a few seconds and keeps repeating over<br>
and over again or would it be even better to provide a really small builtin<br>
greeter that does nothing more than the bare minimum: ask for user and<br>
password and logon a session with nothing more that e.g. Xlib (I am<br>
thinking of something as simplistic as xscreensavers dependancies).<br>
<br>
Thanks and kind regards,<br>
Andre<br>
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Andre Klärner<br>
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