Bug 391033 – x11-misc/lightdm-unity-greeter - lightdm unity style greeter from ubuntu

• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ragas 2011-11-19 18:16:36 UTC]

This adds an ebuild for the lightdm greeter used by ubuntu.

It compiles and installs correctly but I haven't fully tested it yet since I found that it has a runtime dependency on gnome-settings-daemon-3 (which I'm not willing to install again right now).

It also depends on the Ebuild in bug #391031

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Ragas 2011-11-19 18:18:16 UTC]

Created attachment 293119 [details]
x11-themes/ldm-unity-greeter-0.1.1 ebuild

[Comment 2 Christoph Junghans (RETIRED) 2011-12-08 01:56:49 UTC]

Actually, there is also a nice looking webkit greeter.

CCing: hwoarang for options

[Comment 3 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2011-12-08 21:05:59 UTC]

Interesting package. I have no time to maintain it right now but I can act as co-maintainer if needed. Feel free to pick it up or CC proxy-maint@ if Ragas is interested in maintaining it

[Comment 4 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2012-03-05 21:09:20 UTC]

I will take it

[Comment 5 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2012-03-24 10:41:21 UTC]

This requires valac-0.15 which we don't have. So we can't support this ebuild at the moment. Maybe later

[Comment 6 Pacho Ramos 2012-03-24 10:51:40 UTC]

Maybe gnome team could try to get a newer vala in tree if you want (I think other people requested it but we were waiting for anything in the tree needing it)

[Comment 7 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2012-03-24 12:12:08 UTC]

Well yeah that would be nice

[Comment 8 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) 2012-03-27 03:01:03 UTC]

vala-0.16.0 is now in portage.

[Comment 9 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2012-04-01 12:30:44 UTC]

This seems to require dev-libs/glib-2.32 as the following definitions are missing from 2.30. I am not sure if they are available to 2.32 to be honest


settings-daemon.c:333:2: error: unknown type name 'GSettingsSchemaSource'
settings-daemon.c:334:2: error: unknown type name 'GSettingsSchemaSource'
settings-daemon.c:335:2: error: unknown type name 'GSettingsSchemaSource'
settings-daemon.c:336:2: error: unknown type name 'GSettingsSchemaSource'
settings-daemon.c:338:2: error: unknown type name 'GSettingsSchema'
settings-daemon.c:339:2: error: unknown type name 'GSettingsSchema'
settings-daemon.c:340:2: error: unknown type name 'GSettingsSchema'


@gnome. Is there an ETA for a newer glib?

[Comment 10 Pacho Ramos 2012-04-01 13:33:27 UTC]

glib-2.32 is already in the tree, but I think will take some time until it's unmasked (a tinderbox run is needed for it as will probably break a lot of compilations, no idea if flameeyes has already being pinged about that)

[Comment 11 Nikoli 2012-06-03 14:53:49 UTC]

glib-2.32.3 is unmasked now.

[Comment 12 Fabian Köster 2012-07-27 08:39:44 UTC]

Had anyone success in running unity-greeter-0.2.8 ?

I am getting 

ERROR: Settings schema 'com.canonical.unity-greeter' is not installed

[Comment 13 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2014-02-18 23:01:01 UTC]

Fix keywords.