JezerM/nody-greeter

How to run at system startup...?

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NetMan134 commented

Hi, I know - this might sound really dumb (because it probably is), how to actually execute this greeter at system startup?
I scoured the internet for solutions, tried modifying in lightdm.conf the "greeter-session = web-greeter", even used the archived lightdm-webkit2-greeter (it worked with setting "greeter-session = lightdm-webkit2-greeter" in the lightdm config, but I wasn't able to set your lightdm-void-theme https://github.com/JezerM/lightdm-void-theme which I'm interested in). The node-greeter command works though in my desktop environment and launches a greeter, but this isn't my goal.

OS: Void Linux x86_64
Kernel: 5.18.9_1

Thank you guys for any suggestions and help,
Oskar

NetMan134 commented

Missclick - sorry.

JezerM commented

Hello~ First, if you wanna use one of these web based greeters, like nody-greeter, you need to install it and set greeter-session=nody-greeter at /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf. If the lightdm service is not enabled, you should so: sudo ln -s /etc/sv/lightdm /var/service/.

These greeters come with three preinstalled themes: gruvbox (the default one), dracula and simple.

For lightdm-void-theme, you can follow the instructions in the README to build the theme and copy it to /usr/share/web-greeter/themes where all themes should reside. You can use nody-greeter --list to list all installed themes; lightdm-void-theme should be listed.

Then, open your web-greeter/nody-greeter config file at /etc/lightdm/web-greeter.yml (it's the same config file for both greeters), and edit the theme: gruvbox value to theme: lightdm-void-theme:

greeter:
    ...
    theme: lightdm-void-theme
    ...

You could run nody-greeter --debug to preview your chosen theme, and if everything is okay, just let it stay~ Or restart the lightdm service to make sure everything is setup correctly.

NetMan134 commented

Hi!
Thanks for your response - putting nody-greeter in the lightdm.conf did the trick. Everything else was already done and after a reboot it successfully loaded into nody-greeter. I think you should include that in the readme, but that's just my opinion - because didn't see people having this problem nor see this in the docs

Thanks again and have a great night (it's 12 AM in GMT+2 right now),
Oskar

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JezerM commented

I'll add this step in the README just in case. Good night there~