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prikhi / lightdm-mini-greeter

A Minimal, Configurable, Single-User GTK3 LightDM Greeter
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Linux Mint Package #24

Closed dmcrider closed 6 years ago

dmcrider commented 6 years ago

I've been trying for about 6 hours to get this set up on Linux Mint to no avail. Maybe I'm just missing something simple, but it would be a lot easier to just use apt-get. Is that a possibility for you? I'm a relatively novice Linux user and trying to figure this out manually is not fun - to say the least.

prikhi commented 6 years ago

I probably don't have the time to maintain a package in linux mints repositories, but now there's some documentation on how to properly build a package for debian/ubuntu based distributions: https://github.com/prikhi/lightdm-mini-greeter#debian

Currently grabbing an ISO of Linux Mint to see if the same instructions apply.

dmcrider commented 6 years ago

I appreciate the effort. I'll keep trying as well.

prikhi commented 6 years ago

Just tested it out, seem to work fine with the latest changes. Here's the commands I ran:

sudo apt-get install -yy git build-essential automake pkg-config fakeroot debhelper liblightdm-gobject-1-dev libgtk-3-dev
git clone https://github.com/prikhi/lightdm-mini-greeter
cd lightdm-mini-greeter
fakeroot dh binary
sudo dpkg -i ../lightdm-mini-greeter_0.3.2-1_amd64.deb
sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/70-linuxmint.conf     # Add greeter-session=lightdm-mini-greeter
sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm-mini-greeter.conf            # At the minimum, set the "user" option
sudo systemctl restart lightdm

Once lightdm restart, you should see the new greeter.

Gonna close this, but lemme know if you run into any more problems.

prikhi commented 6 years ago

I just release v0.3.3 & there's a deb file for linux mint on the releases page