Package: slick-greeter
Version: 1.2.4-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where
appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation?
Installed slick-greeter on a Debian Buster system already using lightdm
with lightdm-gtk-greeter.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Looked at the Debian alternatives group "lightdm-greeter" to select
slick-greeter.
* What was the outcome of this action?
/usr/share/xgreeters/slick-greeter.desktop exists, but was not a member
of the above group.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Expected to be able to set lightdm-greeter to
/usr/share/xgreeters/slick-greeter.desktop
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.
John
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=: (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages slick-greeter depends on:
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.30.1-2
ii libatk1.0-0 2.30.0-2
ii libc6 2.28-5
ii libcairo2 1.16.0-2
ii libcanberra0 0.30-7
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.38.0+dfsg-7
ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.2-3
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.4-1
ii liblightdm-gobject-1-0 1.26.0-3
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.42.4-6
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.42.4-6
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.7-1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii lightdm 1.26.0-3
ii python3 3.7.2-1
ii python3-gi 3.30.4-1
slick-greeter recommends no packages.
slick-greeter suggests no packages.
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