LightDM GTK Greeter 1.6.0 Released

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It’s finally here… the latest and greatest (and pretty darn good-looking) 1.6.0 release of LightDM GTK Greeter! With refreshed attention to detail and consideration for accessibility, this is the best release yet!

What’s New?

1.6.0

Display the selected username in the tooltip for the user combobox
Use GtkInfoBar for authentication messages

1.5.2

Added support for loading a user’s profile image
Added support for indicators
Session preferences have been moved to the system tray
Interface refresh for login window and shutdown/restart dialogs
The GTK 3 greeter now uses symbolic icons by default
Improved scaling of wallpaper
Introduced support for onscreen keyboard (including proper positioning for onboard application
Addition of (optional) clock widget

Upgrade Notes

For Distributors

With this new release, there are additional settings that can be configured in lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf

show-indicators: Configure which indicator modules (if any) should be displayed in the system tray
show-clock: Configure whether the clock widget should be displayed
clock-format: If the clock is displayed, how should it be formatted? (strftime format)
keyboard: Command to launch the on-screen keyboard. onboard will automatically be positioned at the bottom center of the screen

For Theme Designers

We’ve named each widget, so you can now theme the greeter to your heart’s content! Each of the widget names is below. Just add these new widget names to your theme’s gtk-3.0/apps/lightdm-gtk-greeter.css. For theme examples (and tweaks to maintain compatibility with 1.5.x), check out Greybird‘s lightdm-gtk-greeter.css file.

Panel

panel_window: the panel window, housing the hostname, clock, and system tray
menubar: the system tray widget

login_window: the login dialog window
user_image: the user profile image
user_combobox: the username selection combobox
prompt_entry: the GtkEntry widgets used for username and password
greeter_infobar: the GtkInfoBar widget used to display authentication messages
cancel_button: cancel button used to exit guest logon
login_button: the button to log into the session

Dialogs

shutdown_dialog: the dialog window used for the shutdown dialog
restart_dialog: the dialog window used for the restart dialog
cancel_button: cancel button to exit the dialog
shutdown_button: the button to shutdown the computer
restart_button: the button to restart the computer

Come and Get It!

Downloads for lightdm-gtk-greeter 1.6.0 can be found here: https://launchpad.net/lightdm-gtk-greeter/1.6/1.6.0… If you find any bugs or want to suggest future improvements, head to the lightdm-gtk-greeter Launchpad page!