[arch-general] LightDM GTK+ Greeter 2.0.0

[Richard Ullger]

On 26/02/15 06:15, Pablo Lezaeta Reyes wrote:
> On 02/25/2015 04:33 PM, Pablo Lezaeta Reyes wrote:
>>>> * Hi all,
> *>>>>>>* Version 2.0.0 of the LightDM GTK greeter was released about week ago.
> *>>>* This release drops GTK2 support.
> *>>>>*> That's ironic, Xfce recommend lightdm as DM for the gtk2 theme, and the
> *>*> upcomimng xfce-gtk-engine 3.1 drop gtk3 support.
> *>*>
> *>
>>From what I saw, it didn't drop it. It just disabled it by default, which
>> makes sense given that the desktop is GTK+2 only and they don't want to
>> unnecessary pull in the gtk+3 dep only for the engine.
>>
> 3.1.0 taged http://git.xfce.org/xfce/gtk-xfce-engine/tree/NEWS
> 
> verbatim from the news: "Gtk+-3 support has been stopped"
> 
> I asume they keep it but they stop supporting so I think unles a patch
> that fix all the themes emerge wldly, will be better drop xfce3-gtk-engine
> or the entire xfce-gtk-engine, but that mostly prove that they not
> support gtk3, drop gtk2-greeter will render without a wai to use a gtk2 only
> environment since lxdm is mostly no-more-maintained and is better have a greeter
> than a binary unsupported.
> 
> Also xfce4 recomend greybird as theme for xfce if someone need a gtk2-gtk3 theme
> 
> 
>>>> * Therefore I propose to rename the current "lightdm-gtk3-greeter" into
> *>>>* "lightdm-gtk-greeter" and drop the legacy "lightdm-gtk2-greeter" to AUR.
> *>*> looking oxygen keep the gtk3 in AUR gtk3 only themes tend to use gtk3 and
> *>*> gtk2 only thend to use gtk or gtk2, I will preffer keep the 3 in the name.
> *>>*> I could keep "lightdm-gtk2-greeter" around for a while in [community] if
> *>>*> some people want me to (I'm thinking people using MATE for example,
> *>>*> but it's going towards GTK3 anyway), but keep in mind that you can use
> *>>>* LXDM instead if you really need a GTK2 display manager.
> *>*> Or Xfce4 users, the upcoming xfce4 release is gtk2, and only after that the
> *>*> migration to gtk3 will start.
> *>*> so a gtk2-greeter will be apreciated until xfce drop gtk2, and dont forget
> *>*> that LXDM is now presumably unmaintained or in low maintainance since they
> *>*> migrate to QT
> *>>>>>*> If there aren't any objections by the end of the week, I'll
> proceed with my
> *>>*> proposal.
> *>>>>*> Me
> *>*>
> *>>>* Cheers,
> *>>
> 
> tldr; I will go for keep gtk2-greeter for  xfce4 user since lxdm is
> semi-unmaintained and better a unmaintained theme that a
> binary.
> someone know if slim keep working with systemd, last time was buggy
> or not start or not let thing start at all (like logind)
> 

I'm using slim with systemd and have noticed no issues. My arch is up to
date.

I was interested in this thread because I was thinking of trying lightdm
with light-locker. I can't get xflock4 and gnome-screensaver to lock the
screen. It works if I run xflock4 from the cli but the screen locking is
not working automatically via power-manager.

Regards,

Richard