LightDM GTK+ Greeter 2.0.4 Released

With improvements for accessibility, cursor theme options, and the resolution to a years-old bug, LightDM GTK+ Greeter 2.0.4 is a long-awaited release for every user.

Sean Davis

Mar 3, 2018 • 1 min read

What’s New?

New Feature

Added cursor-theme-name and cursor-theme-size configuration keys. Prior to this update, users had to change the default X11 cursor to change it for the login screen.

Build Changes

Finished the port from gnome-common. There were come leftover bits that were causing build failures with the latest Ubuntu release.
Moved additional deprecated function calls to greeterdeprecated.c/.h so full debug builds remain functional.

Bug Fixes

Fixed autologin-session configuration (LP: #1707186)
Fixed accessibility with at-spi-bus on systemd and non-systemd environments (LP: #1366534, #1670933)
(Finally!) fixed the infinite flicker that would happen occasionally for users with multiple monitors (LP: #1410406, #1509780)

Downloads

Debian Unstable/Testing and Ubuntu Bionic users can install the latest release from the repositories.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install lightdm-gtk-greeter

Otherwise, the latest version of LightDM GTK+ Greeter can always be downloaded from the Launchpad archives. Grab version 2.0.4 from the below link.

https://launchpad.net/lightdm-gtk-greeter/2.0/2.0.4/+download/lightdm-gtk-greeter-2.0.4.tar.gz

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SHA-1: 5cb3fbc17174f1348b2e6e9c48ad4ac95a35e50f
MD5: 8d37f7bbb453338af64e4e506681f031