[LightDM] custom greeter

[Zsolt Ero]

Thanks for the answers.

gir1.2-lightdm-1 comes from testing, as it's not present in stable. It's 
the only reason I had to implement apt-pinning. So everything is from 
stable, except gir1.2-lightdm-1 and liblightdm-gobject-1-0, which are 
from testing. It works well so far.

So do you recommend having lightdm installed with "-t testing" and 
having all it's dependencies updated to testing, to be sure that it's at 
the matching version to liblightdm-gobject-1-0?

Thanks, I've had a look at the greeters and how to make GTK apps with 
and without .ui files. You are right it's not related to lightdm, so 
I'll be pursuing this question on the appropriate forums.

Zsolt


On 11/02/2014 20:35, Robert Ancell wrote:
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> On 12 February 2014 01:23, Zsolt Ero <zsolt at kano.me
> <mailto:zsolt at kano.me>> wrote:
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>     At the moment, this is the way I install it (in preferences stable
>     has a preference over testing)
>     apt-get install gir1.2-lightdm-1 python-gobject lightdm
>     gir1.2-gtk-3.0 liblightdm-gobject-1-0/testing
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> I would think that you would also want gir1.2-lightdm-1 to come from
> testing to match liblightdm-gobject-1-0 but I guess the packaging
> dependencies work this out anyway? Also, while the daemon (lightdm)
> should work with newer versions of liblightdm in general it would be
> safer to have the same versions of these.
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>     Can you tell me what is the best way to start making the very simple
>     login screen of Matt Fischer's example into a full-screen GUI window
>     with avatars?
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>     Should I edit the .ui file with some GUI tool, like Glade? How do
>     you mix program logic and GUI, for example when you want to have a
>     GUI with an unknown number of users/avatars?
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> This is more of a general GTK+ development question better solved
> elsewhere. I'd recommend looking at some existing greeters [1] [2] which
> use user icons for ideas on how to implement this. You may also find
> these existing greeters already provide closer to what you want.
>
> --Robert
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> [1] https://launchpad.net/lightdm-gtk-greeter
> [2] https://launchpad.net/pantheon-greeter