Greeter

Building and Installation

You'll need the following dependencies:

• gnome-settings-daemon >= 3.27
• libaccountsservice-dev
• libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev
• libgranite-dev >= 5.2.3
• libgtk-3-dev
• liblightdm-gobject-1-dev
• libmutter
• libwingpanel-2.0-dev
• libx11-dev
• meson
• valac

Run meson to configure the build environment and then ninja to build

meson build --prefix=/usr
cd build
ninja

To install, use ninja install

sudo ninja install

Testing & Debugging

Run LightDM in test mode with Xephyr:

lightdm --test-mode --debug

You can then find the debug log in ~/.cache/lightdm/log