[LightDM] LightDM without X

[Adrian Vovk]

Awesome, thank you!

On Wed, Jun 19, 2019, 17:40 Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Adrian,
>
> LightDM doesn't depend on X and you can have a Wayland based greeter.
>
> If you install the greeter .desktop file into /usr/share/lightdm/greeters
> and set X-LightDM-Session-Type=wayland LightDM will launch this greeter
> without an X server.
>
> Hope this helps!
> --Robert
>
> On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 at 09:34, Adrian Vovk <adrianvovk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm in the process of making my own distro & DE, and I need a login
>> manager. My OS *does not* include XOrg at all, except for XWayland. Does
>> LightDM have the ability to run the greeter on Wayland without starting
>> XOrg? The documentation doesn't mention the ability to run without X11 (nor
>> does it seem to mention that X11 is required for that matter), and it seems
>> that X is a dependency of LightDM. If LightDM didn't require X, the greeter
>> itself could be a Wayland compositor that LightDM starts and interacts
>> with. Is this supported/planned in any way?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Adrian Vovk
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