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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ed719d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +# qt-lightdm-greeter + +qt-lightdm-greeter is a simple frontend for the lightdm displaymanager, written in c++ and qt5. + +It has it's roots in the razor project, where it was developed under the name razor-lightdm-greeter. When razor was merged into LXQt it was renamed to lxqt-lightdm-greeter. + +As of september 2015 I have renamed it to qt-lightdm-greeter and cut it's ties to LXQt. This was primarily because LXQt recommends SDDM as its displaymanager and because the application had very little integration with LXQt. + +qt-lightdm-greeter sports a razor-qt logo as a reminder of it's origin. + +## Installing + +Make sure you have cmake, gcc, qt5 and liblightdm-qt5 (and lightdm) installed on your system + +Do + +```shell +git clone https://github.com/surlykke/qt-lightdm-greeter.git +cd qt-lightdm-greeter +mkdir build +cd build +cmake .. +make +sudo make install +``` + +## How to enable qt-lightdm greeter + +Update or insert in(to) your `/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf`, in the `SeatDefaults` section, this line: + + greeter-session=qt-lightdm-greeter + +## Configure qt-lightdm-greeter + +The file `/etc/lightdm/qt-lightdm-greeter.conf` allows for a +few configurations of qt-lightdm-greeter (background-image, positioning of loginform). +The configuration options are documented in that file. + |