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A slick-looking LightDM greeter
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Does LMDE deb package add itself to Debian's alternative groups #124

Open fossfreedom opened 5 years ago

fossfreedom commented 5 years ago 
 * slick-greeter version (1.2.4)
 * Distribution - Debian Buster)
 * Graphics hardware *and* driver used --> N/A
 * 32 or 64 bit

Issue A bug report has been raised on Debian Buster and I have raised it here because I'm wondering if LMDE handles this scenario - if it does please can you point me to the LMDE deb source package? TIA

Installed slick-greeter on a Debian Buster system already using lightdm with lightdm-gtk-greeter. Looked at the Debian alternatives group "lightdm-greeter" to select slick-greeter.

Steps to reproduce /usr/share/xgreeters/slick-greeter.desktop exists, but was not a member of the above group.

Expected behaviour Expected to be able to set lightdm-greeter to /usr/share/xgreeters/slick-greeter.desktop

Other information Debian's lightdm expects (in /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/01_debian.conf) its greeter to be set by the alternative "lightdm-greeter", but slick-greeter overrules this in 50-slick-greeter.conf. If, instead of using 50-slick-greeter.conf, slick-greeter set an alternative in the lightdm-greeter group it would be easy for users to switch greeters. Now it is necessary for a user or sysadmin to edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf, or else uninstall the unused greeter.

lightdm-gtk-greeter already does this in debian/{postinst,prerm} files and slick-greeter could use the same method.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=920975

icarter09 commented 4 years ago

@fossfreedom are you still experiencing this issue?

fossfreedom commented 4 years ago

It's still a question that I would like an answer to. Thanks

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