Hi Riccardo,
On 2026-02-08 23:33:11 +0100 Riccardo Mottola
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
short version: Login.app is incomplete and unreleased.
Patrick Cardona wrote:
I recently fetched LoginPanel from svn gap repo.
I installed: libpam0g-dev.
I tried to buid the app with this arg:
have-pam=yes
This error happened:
Authenticator.m:210:11: error: invalid use of undefined type struct
passwd
Could you explain what is missing or what I made wrong?
I don't exactly know, I hacked on LoginApp a long time ago, but could
not get
it working. Gregory started in the dawn of GAP and I tried to
modernize it
without success. I want it portable to Linux and BSD at least, of
course.
Possibly in your case it is just a matter that pam changed/updated
some
structure in the meanwhile, but even if, I don't think it would work.
I was able to get it working once "decently enough" that you could
login.
However, at log-out not all applications would be killed, I tried to
fix that
in many ways.
Another approach which sounds simpler and is to make it start X11 for
you and
then kill the X server everytime. That is what many login managers
do, but
also that didn't work and also has some drawbacks.
At the end, I decided to work on many other "desktop" things. To my
knowledge, except the look, there is no particular gain compared with
others.
Except for possible integration with SystemPreferences.
Well, it could be a topic for future hacking sessions.
Thank you for the aknowledgement.
So I will keep LightDM as Display and Login mananger as long
LoginPanel will be unavailable.
...
Cheers,
Patrick
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