Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marc Dequènes (Duck) <d...@duckcorp.org> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
* Package name : greetd Version : 0.8.0 Upstream Author : Kenny Levinsen <k...@kl.wtf> * URL : https://git.sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/greetd * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: Rust Description : minimal and flexible login manager daemon greetd makes no assumptions about what you want to launch. Use gtkgreet to launch sway if you want a fully graphical session, or use agreety to launch a shell if you want a drop-in replacement for agetty(8) and login(1). If you can run it from your shell in a TTY, greetd can start it. If it can be taught to speak a simple JSON-based IPC protocol, then it can be a greeter. Most login managers historically assumes X11. The most compatible one is probably GDM but unless you use GNOME you may wish to have a more lightweight solution. Lightdm worked well until recently despite not having Walyland support itself but it is now afflicted by this bug: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/6655 The last release dates 2018 and there is no recent coding activity. I think greetd's architecture properly decouples authentication and the login UI and makes for a good replacement for Wayland users. I was thinking about maintaining it into the Rust team but I have not joined yet. Regards. \_o< -- Marc Dequènes