[LightDM] Logging out of autologin

[Robert Ancell]

So yes, if is working in the GTK+ greeter but not the KDE greeter then I'd
expect the feature was not implemented there.

On Thu Dec 18 2014 at 10:03:48 Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu Dec 18 2014 at 07:58:40 <lightdm.bobd at dfgh.net> wrote:
>
>> On 12/09/2014 10:35 PM, Robert Heller - heller at deepsoft.com wrote:
>>
>> > Set the auto login timeout to 0 (or maybe 1 -- sometimes 0 is used to
>> indicate
>> > infinity).
>> >
>>
>> Does the autologin timeout feature require coordination with the greeter
>> itself?
>>
>
> Yes, the daemon informs the greeter that an autologin timer should be used
> and provides a signal that the greeter can connect to that times out after
> this. It is recommended that greeters do their own timer though so they can
> indicate to the user the remaining time and cancel it on user interaction.
>
> For liblightdm-gobject:
> lightdm_greeter_get_autologin_timeout_hint () gets the timeout in seconds.
> lightdm_greeter_authenticate_autologin () should be called after this many
> seconds if not cancelled.
> You can connect to the "autologin-timer-expired" signal if you want to use
> the built in one and cancel it with lightdm_greeter_cancel_autologin ().
>
> For liblightdm-qt:
> QLightDM::Greeter::autologinTimeoutHint() gets the timeout.
> autologinTimerExpired() signal is emitted after this many seconds.
> I notice the cancelAutologin() was never added - I'll add that now.
>
> --Robert
>
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