Hi, I'm part of the people who develop Tails [1], a Live DVD/USB aimed at preserving privacy and anonymity.
Tails is currently based on Debian Squeeze, and ships GDM 2.30.5 with a custom greeter we call tails-greeter [2] [3]. It was quite easy to implement our custom GDM greeter at this point, thanks in particular to the GreeterServer D-Bus API. The integrated support for setting the keyboard layout was really helpful too. I'd like to thank everyone who made this possible for us, if they're still around. [1] https://tails.boum.org/ [2] http://git.immerda.ch/?p=tails/tails-greeter.git [3] https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/startup_options/#index2h1 We are soon going to rebase Tails on top of Debian Wheezy, that includes GDM 3.4.1, which seems to change lots of things about greeters. So, we now have to seriously consider our options wrt. the future of our custom greeter. I'm pretty sure we can overcome the loss of the keyboard layout setting feature... if there are not too many serious blockers along the road of adapting tails-greeter to GDM 3.x. My initial naive attempts to plug tails-greeter into GDM 3.4.1 were not successful. I did this two months ago and I'm sorry I've not kept detailed notes of these early attempts. If anyone is interested enough, I can retry and provide details. I was not able to find any up-to-date documentation about how one can write a custom greeter for GDM 3.x, what requirements it must satisfy, and how one may plug it into GDM's GNOME session so that it replaces. So, my questions are: * Is there any documentation for custom greeter writers? * Is the "custom greeter" usecase something the GDM developers are interested to support on the long run? * Are you aware of any existing custom greeter for GDM 3.x? Even a trivial proof-of-concept would do. Cheers, -- intrigeri | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
