Talk:LightDM

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dbus

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LightDM needs dbus running? If doing:

root #rc-update add xdm default

Also need to have done:

root #rc-update add dbus default

It appears to be used to communicate with the greeter:

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LightDM/Design#Inter-process_Relationships

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cjmayo (talk • contribs) 4 January 2013 [formatting changed by Maffblaster on 18 August 2015]

lightdm user account setup

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Lightdm will allow XDMCP users to reboot and shutdown the host prior to logging in, unless lightdm is run under a different account to root. Here's some instructions on how to set it up under an account called 'lightdm'.

To create the system account use the following command:

root #useradd -r -d /var/lib/lightdm-data/lightdm -s /bin/nologin lightdm

Then modify lightdm.conf so that it has the following entry in the [LightDM] section:

greeter-user=lightdm

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pickledpiper (talk • contribs) 3 August 2016

As a first time Gentoo user, it took me a long time to find this lightdm user account setup. It would be nice if this was on the wiki page. I was wrestling with errors thinking something was wrong with xdm and and all I had to do was add a user for lightdm.

Jesse m (talk) 13:24, 2 April 2018 (UTC) jesse_m

ebuild should do this, but no bug #563564 --Cronolio (talk) 12:56, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

I completely agree with Cronolio , this is a step the ebuild should perform, just as SDDM creates the sddm user at install time. I'll see if I can elevate this. For the present, it is good to add this information to the wiki page since it's a Gentoo-specific setup instruction until bug #563564 is closed. --Maffblaster (talk) 22:54, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

I'm back 4 years later! bug #563564 has been closed. This issue has been resolved. --Maffblaster (talk) 23:16, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

gnome-keyring section needs updating

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The current instructions for adding gnome-keyring support using pam have proven insufficient on my system booting into openbox. The pam file shipped with lightdm is different from listed, but I don't know if that's really a concern. Here's the current shipped:

FILE /etc/pam.d/lightdm

auth	substack		system-local-login
account	substack		system-local-login
password	substack		system-local-login
session	substack		system-local-login

I won't edit the page myself because I haven't yet found a solution. gnome-keyring runs as a daemon but I'm still prompted for the password on starting up an app that needs it. It'd be great if someone who got this working recently could offer the steps they used. --Tephra (talk) 18:20, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Looks like the instructions were added in this change: Special:Diff/731350/757375. Closing. --Maffblaster (talk) 23:26, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

razorqt section

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Razor-qt project is discontinued and as far as I know merged with lxqt project. Shouldn't we remove this section? P4r4D0xum (talk) 19:56, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

If you're sure, feel free to just make the change ;) - Contributor's guide. -- Ris (talk) 20:02, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

I'll give it some though. Perhaps better idea would be replace it with lxqt section. P4r4D0xum (talk) 20:09, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Cool - even if things aren't perfect, if they are better than before (i.e. outdated info gone), that's a win ;). -- Ris (talk) 20:15, 21 March 2023 (UTC)