Need to switch to lockscreen to LightDM GTK Greeter #3
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Ubuntu faced this problem before 14.04LTS. I remember trying to solve this with a dirty hack back then. 😆 But then around 14.04LTS, Ubuntu got the beautiful Light Locker which looks consistent with Unity Greeter. 😍 See this article by WebUpd8 explaining the steps to try Light Locker. I think we should replace |
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It's Working fine 😄 |
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nope - doesnt work for me. |
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When I was testing Arc's Unity Greeter theming last week, I noticed the lock button in Raven uses Unity Greeter. But, I hadn't changed anything in Budgie's settings except setting |
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"dm-tool lock" forces the switch to the lightdm lock greeter. However its not a real lock because I can switch to TTY6 and back to TTY7 and the desktop is displayed not locked. |
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@fossfreedom That's interesting! I think I encountered something similar on Ubuntu GNOME 16.04LTS. Could see unlocked session by switching TTY! 😮 But that was GDM and it's lockscreen, not LightDM. |
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I know that Manjaro's Budgie edition uses LightDM GTK as their login greeter. So I went to check out their lock screen and got the gnome-screensaver which was disheartening. I'm extremely impressed with this distro and think finding out how to do this will make it all the more better. |
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@fossfreedom What elementary OS does is changes 'Lock' to lock + Switch User, and then LightDM unlocks the moment you sign into a logged in user by default unlocking GNOME Screensaver instantly... |
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...and that means that the user is still essentially locked |
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@feren hi - that sounds very interesting ... but I'm not sure I completely follow how elementary does this - can you point me at any packages/configuration that shows how elementary manages that instant unlock? |
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@fossfreedom I don't know exactly of the packages, but when I tried eOS Freya, when I locked, it always did Switch User instead by design, and if you add locking to GNOME Screensaver normally before switching users, you'll still keep the user secure in the process... |
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@fossfreedom I think it was something inside of the pantheon* packages that controlled that, the easiest diversion is editing Budgie to launch the command for LightDM's Switch User shortcut as well as the normal locking on Hibernate, Ctrl+Alt+L, menus, and so on... |
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I used the same workaround @feren is describing when I was on ubuntu + gnome flashback to have the more beautiful switch user screen than the ugly gnome lock screen. It worked very well for me |
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Can you expand slightly? How do you lock and switch? Is that command line stuff or more complicated dbus stuff? |
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@fossfreedom In a nutshell, it's probably that you'd have to make it point to executing a BASH Script that firstly locks using GNOME Screensaver, and then uses |
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hmm - I tried to run dm-tool switch-to-greeter / dm-tool lock and yes indeed it switches to the login window.
But I can also then CTRL+ALT+F4 to switch to TTY and back to TTY7 and the screen is now longer locked.
I tried also running gnome-screensaver-command -l && dm-tool switch-to-greeter & and tried the TTY trick - but on the unlock I was left at the gnome-screensaver lock screen but without the means to unlock.
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@fossfreedom<https://github.com/fossfreedom> In a nutshell, it's probably that you'd have to make it point to executing a BASH Script that firstly locks using GNOME Screensaver, and then uses dm-tool switch-to-greeter or dm-tool lock to enter Switch User, and then when the user puts in their password on the DM, the DM will also unlock it on GNOME Screensaver too.
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Huh, weird, in the times I've used GNOME Screensaver it has always had a means of unlocking... |
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@fossfreedom will Light Locker be default in a later version (20.04?) |
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@gsbhasin123 someone will need to dig in to make this happen https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/replacing-the-lock-screen-with-something-else/2328 |
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Thanks David, will check. And I am actually codic btw |
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@fossfreedom I've tried locking from Raven, also launches GNOME Screensaver in 19.10. |
Currently we've inherited the
gnome-screensaverlockscreen, which's seen onSuper+L:However, if you lock from Raven you see this beauty:
So how do we switch from
gnome-screensaverand makelightdm-gtk-greeterthe default locker?The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: