LightDM GTK+ Greeter 1.7.1 Released

Progress continues on the development of the LightDM GTK+ Greeter. The second release of the 1.7 development series adds even more customization options and stability to an already great product.

Sean Davis

Jan 23, 2014 • 2 min read

What’s New?

These new features build on top of what was recently added in 1.7.0. For more information about that release, please see this post.

New Features

The “border-radius” property for the login window and power dialogs is now themeable with CSS.
Widgets now support a themed alpha channel for “fake” transparency.
Sessions are now represented by a graphical badge, similar to Unity Greeter
Languages are now represented by a country-code label.

Bugs Fixed

LP #1266449: greeter crashes on empty username
LP #1264563: switch-to-greeter does not set lock hint
LP #1264771: Password entry box is not defined as invisible in glade definition
LP #1267742: Screen artifacts appear after restart and cold boot
LP #1270530: Login screen has boxes instead of text when font is not set

Other Improvements

Improved username tooltips
Fixed memory leak in clock feature
Improved xscreensaver timeout functionality
Login button is now the “default” widget
Windows can no longer be positioned off-screen

Screenshots

The latest version featuring Greybird, the default theme in Xubuntu.

1.7.1 introduces the use of session badges and language codes.

The latest version featuring the popular Numix theme.

The latest version featuring a WIP theme by Satya.

Download and Installation

The source code for LightDM GTK+ Greeter can be obtained from the downloads page. Ubuntu users (Quantal through Trusty) can also install it from the Stable PPA using the following commands.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lightdm-gtk-greeter-team/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lightdm-gtk-greeter

If you find any bugs, please report them on the bugs page.