Cameronsplaze
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1 year ago I think I'm extremely close to getting this to work. I'm doing it on a Fedora Server 37 iso, so no DM/DE is pre-installed.
1) Install core packages: sudo dnf install -y python3-pip nano wayland-devel lightdm
2) Install a lightdm greeter:
To setup a greeter, run `sudo nano --linenumbers /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf`, **uncomment** and change the lines:
- (Line 102) change `greeter-session=example-gtk` to `greeter-session=<YOUR_GREETER_HERE>`
To find the greeter's name, `ls /etc/lightdm/*.conf`, but ignore `keys.conf`, `lightdm.conf`, and `users.conf`.Ironically which greeter to use is where I'm stuck. I've tried elephant-greeter, lightdm-gtk-greeter, and io.elementary.greeter. When you set one up and it doesn't work, you can find the error at sudo tail -n100 /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log
- Both
lightdm-gtk-greeterandio.elementary.greeterfailed since they're trying to start a x11 server, and I don't have one installed. I can't find if they support wayland, and/or how to switch them to use wayland instead. - I got stuck on
elephant-greetersince it uses cage (a way to emulate a x11 server inside wayland). It got the farthest, but it wants XDG_* variables declared (specifically XDG_RUNTIME_DIR). I can't find if there's a tiny package you can install to set them, or if you need to install the whole x11 bloat to get it to work.- Side-note: I noticed inside lightdm.conf, there's
#greeters-directory=$XDG_DATA_DIRS/lightdm/greeters:$XDG_DATA_DIRS/xgreeters, a XDG variable on something that supports wayland too. That variable isn't set when I echo it, but lightdm is still able to find the greeters as I change them around and debug them. I'm not sure what's going on there.
- Side-note: I noticed inside lightdm.conf, there's
Gliese852
Randomneo
In #102 the user asked if LightDM could run on Wayland, has this been done? A source would be great. I know it ran on mir, but I'm hoping for something more Wayland-specific.