1 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.11
3 * Fix crash when greeter quits due to read watch not being removed
4 * Correctly setup Unity System Compositor environment
7 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.10
9 * Fix session locking broken in 1.7.5
10 * Load lightdm.conf after lightdm.conf.d/*.conf
11 * Also support loading config from /usr/share
12 * When switching sessions show a greeter if authentication required
13 * Set $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP if specified in the xsession file
14 * Change logging prefixes to make it easier to troubleshoot multiseat setups
15 * Bring Ubuntu packaging in-tree
17 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.9
19 * Correctly set XDG_VTNR for unity sessions that are not autologin.
21 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.8
23 * Add support for Mir sessions and greeters.
24 * Set XDG_VTNR for unity sessions.
25 * Fix desktop-session-start upstart signal not being emitted since 1.7.5.
26 * Fix greeter log broken in 1.7.5.
28 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.7
30 * Fix uninitialized pointer introduced in 1.7.3
31 * Enable compile warnings and fix code generating warnings
33 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.6
35 * Restore greeter hints that were regressed in 1.7.5.
36 * Don't run greeters through session wrapper - regression in 1.7.5
38 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.5
40 * Quit Plymouth correctly when using the unity seat type
41 * Release the VT when the system compositor fails to start
42 * Load sessions and greeters from /usr/share/lightdm/sessions and
43 /usr/share/lightdm/greeters. The existing directories are checked
44 if the sessions are not in these directories.
45 * Refactor the Display class so that it merges with the Seat class
46 * Support running the greeter and session in different display servers
47 instead of re-using the same one during a login.
48 * Add more regression tests
51 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.4
53 * Set XDG_SEAT and XDG_VTNR environment variables.
54 * Add initial support for Unity (i.e. Mir based) seats.
55 * Add a greeter wrapper option.
57 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.3
59 * Load configuration from /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d.
60 * Fix compile warnings
61 * Fix tests not running from install directory inside checkout.
63 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.2
65 * Fix incorrectly distributed guest-session apparmor data
67 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.1
69 * Fix .pc file for liblightdm-qt5-3
70 * Add a new option "autologin-in-background" which lets an autologin happen
71 in a second display while still showing the greeter.
72 * Stop if fail to create default seat
73 * Add option to set seat type in lightdm-set-defaults
74 * Stop using g_file_set_contents - it can leave intermediate files around
75 * Make tests work without installing them
78 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.0
80 * Use logind instead of ConsoleKit if it is available
81 * Use Q_SLOTS and Q_SIGNALS instead of slots and signals.
82 * Ignore stale X server locks
83 * Pass through system locale or set locale from AccountsService/.dmrc
84 * Fix bug where seat failure before D-Bus acquired would not stop daemon
86 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.6.0
88 * Allow VNC command to be specified in lightdm.conf
89 * Register enums with QObject meta type system.
91 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.3
93 * Fix build with gobject-introspection 1.35.9
94 * Fix authentication cancel regression caused in 1.5.2
96 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.2
98 * Fix stale X server being left behind when using LockSession D-Bus API
99 * Adjust AppArmor profile to also work with logind
100 * Don't use GIO to access X authority files - it uses GVFS which is
101 unnecessary overhead/complexity
102 * Handle over/underflows when reading from greeter
103 * Improve warning message when XDMCP packet has length mismatch
104 * Only report test command line if it fails
105 * Add more regression tests
107 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.1
109 * QLightDM: Add Qt5 version of the library: liblightdm-qt5-2
110 * QLightDM: Add some missing role names in UsersModel
111 * QLightDM: Add a backgroundPath role to UsersModel
112 * QLightDM: Fix potential crash in QLightDM::UsersModel closedown.
113 * Improve guest session apparmor
114 * Run each test in its own /tmp dir so they can't interfere with eachother
115 * Fix script hooks no longer working with latest glib
116 * Fix display clean up code
118 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.0
120 * Add man page for lightdm-set-defaults
121 * Use xzip for distribution, don't distribute old metadata
122 * Correctly check if display is active when session quits
123 * Relicense liblightdm to LGPL-2/LGPL-3 so GPL-2 code can link against it
124 * Selectively lock memory rather than calling mlockall for main daemon
126 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.4.1
128 * Fix autologin PAM configuration
130 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.4.0
132 * Correctly implement and test autologin timeouts
133 * Add greeter-show-remote-login hint
134 * Correctly annotate enums in vapi file
135 * QLightDM: Add default constructor to Qt power interface
136 * QLightDM: Expose image path in UserModel
137 * QLightDM: Add parameter to session model to show either local or remote
139 * Fix race conditions in tests
141 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.3
143 * Add a new remote session type. These sessions create a temporary local
144 account and authenticate against a remote server. The session is an
145 application that accesses that remote session (e.g. VNC, RDP etc)
146 * Support multiple simultaneous PAM prompts
147 * Set utmp ut_host field to the X display address
148 * Correctly reap unused authentication sessions
150 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.2
152 * Handle clearenv() not being defined
153 * Fix compilation with GCC 4.7
154 * Expose remaining properties in QLightDM::Greeter
155 * Fix utmp records being written before child process created
157 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.1
159 * Fix wrapper path in AppArmor profile (broken since 1.1.1)
160 * Add show-manual-login and allow-guest options to lightdm-set-defaults
161 * Don't set PAM_XDISPLAY or PAM_XAUTHDATA if not supported
162 * Add lock-memory option, enabled by default, to prevent paging memory
164 * Write utmp records for sessions
165 * Install PAM configuration
166 * Run greeters inside the "lightdm-greeter" PAM service
167 * Handle setresgid and setresuid not being available
168 * Use xsession directory from lightdm.conf in liblightdm
170 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.2.0
172 * Backup .xsession-errors on login
173 * Handle failures in pam_setcred
174 * Open log files in append mode
175 * Add extra checks in liblightdm so that it doesn't send invalid messages
177 * Fix gdmflexiserver not being added to the path (broken since 1.1.4)
178 * Fix PAM conversations after authentication from locking up sessions
179 * Fix PAM informational messages locking up autologin
180 * Change XDMCP manage timeout from 10ms to 126s (maximum specified in the
183 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.9
185 * Add --show-users/--hide-users to lightdm-set-defaults
186 * Call initgroups before pam_setcred - this allows pam_setcred to change
187 group membership correctly
189 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.8
191 * Handle PAM interactions that have more than one message in one callback
193 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.7
195 * Add a seat option greeter-allow-guest which controls if the greeter should
196 provide an option to access the guest account.
197 * Add a seat option greeter-show-manual-login which hints to a greeter if it
198 should show a manual username entry if a user list is already present.
200 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.6
202 * Fix session wrapper working the same as it did in 1.1.3
204 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.5
206 * Stop file descriptors leaking into the session processes
208 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.4
210 * Change session directory once user permissions are set so it works
211 on NFS filesystems that don't allow root to access files.
212 * Restructure session code so the PAM authentication is run in its
214 * Set PAM_XDISPLAY and PAM_XAUTHDATA pam items
215 * Don't send session stdout to .xsession-errors
216 * Fix Qt bindings crash when removing a user
218 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.3
220 * Actually return the system default keyboard layout, not just 'us'
221 * Add keyboard layout variants to list of keyboard layouts
222 * Check accountsservice as well as .dmrc for users' layouts
223 * Add lightdm_user_get_layouts() to query the configured list of layouts
225 * Add Lock D-Bus method that locks the seat and provides a hint to the
226 greeter to be in lock mode.
227 * Automatically lock sessions when switching away from them
228 * Add a has-messages property to liblightdm
229 * Add regression tests for PAM modules changing usernames
230 * Don't use g_key_file_unref, it requires glib 2.32
232 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.2
234 * Add regression tests for getting the user language and layout
235 * Stop accidentally distributing libsystem
236 * Fix introspection bindings not containing any methods
237 * lightdm-set-defaults can now set the autologin user
238 * Add Python greeter regression tests (representative of all introspection
240 * Wait for the VT to become active when switching to avoid a suspected
241 race condition somewhere between LightDM, X, ConsoleKit and the kernel.
242 * Stop lightdm_greeter_start_session_sync() blocking on success.
244 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.1
246 * Add a --disable-tests option
247 * Add note to AUTHORS file where to find author list
248 * Update build system to find moc/uic
249 * Fix non-distributed tests/src/lightdm-session
250 * Fix X sessions with arguments in Exec not working
251 * Use previous session for automatic login or if greeter does not request
253 * Set default resolution of VNC to 1024x768, add settings for width, height,
254 depth into lightdm.conf.
255 * AppArmor profile: Fix broken gnome-keyring and dbus/gwibber, and quiesce
256 annoying kernel audit messages for privileges that we definitively do not
258 * Set LOGNAME environment variable
259 * Don't set USERNAME environment variable - this is not specified in POSIX,
260 please report if this causes any major problems.
261 * Drop privileges when reading ~/.dmrc
262 * Move the GTK+ and Qt greeters into their own projects
263 * Fix crash when quitting with newer GLib
264 * Fix crash calling lightdm_get_layout
265 * Support for reading users' backgrounds from Accounts Service
266 * Fix --debug working with new glib
267 * Support PAM requesting a change of password
268 * Update build system to work with automake 1.11.2
269 * Run tests inside their own system D-Bus, simulating ConsoleKit and
271 * Add regression test for users that have their home directory created after
273 * Move lightdm-guest-session from libexec to pkglibexec directory
275 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.0
277 * Remove GetSeatForCookie and GetSessionForCookie D-Bus methods
278 * Switching to a user without a password bypasses the greeter
279 * Use LD_PRELOAD to intercept system calls for testing
280 * Removed the --passwd-file option as not required for testing anymore
281 * Rename test-xserver to X and remove --xserver-command option
282 * Make a test session wrapper and remove --session-wrapper option
283 * Remove unused --user-session, --greeter-session, --minimum-vt,
284 --minimum-display-number options
285 * Use 'default' as the default greeter (make a symlink)
286 * GTK greeter now initializes i18n
287 * GTK greeter now remembers last user
288 * Start authentication for automtically selected user in GTK greeter
289 * Don't resize GTK greeter on each click
290 * Start authentication when scrolling through GTK greeter entries
291 * Link liblightdm-qt against QtGui
292 * Fix liblightdm-qt crashing when face images are installed
293 * Set correct permissions on session log files
294 * Introduce a lightdm-guest-session-wrapper session command which MAC
295 systems like AppArmor and SELinux can use for attaching a restrictive
296 policy to guest sessions.
297 * Provide an AppArmor profile for guest session lockdown.
298 * Fix daemon from blocking if Accounts Service does not exist
299 * Fix greeter log file not being written
300 * Don't set LANG environment variable if using Accounts Service.
301 * Fix gdmflexiserver not working due to it not being in PATH
302 * Don't authenticate the greeter user
303 * Allow greeters to be disabled in configure flags
304 * Fix over allocation of read buffer in greeter protocol
305 * Make sure objects are cleaned up on exit
306 * Fix minor memory leaks
307 * Fix reference counting issue in ConsoleKit code
308 * Fix --enable-gtk-greeter=yes not working
310 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.0.0
312 * Explicitly grab keyboard focus in GTK greeter
313 * Fix removed power and a11y menu items in GTK greeter
314 * Put system binary directory into path when running in test mode
315 * Call pam_getenvlist after pam_setcred
317 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.8
319 * GetSeatForCookie and GetSessionForCookie are now deprecated. They
320 remain for now but use the XDG_SEAT_PATH and XDG_SESSION_PATH
321 environment variables instead.
322 * Change log filenames to be unique across different display types.
323 * Fix up script hooks, add regression tests for them
324 * Complete removal of X code from the core of LightDM, so it can better
325 support various display types
326 * Add ability to set the language of a user from the greeter
327 * Set LANG variable based on the user language
328 * Add language selector into GTK greeter (disabled by default)
329 * Allow TCP/IP connections if xserver-allow-tcp is true
330 * Allow lightdm --version to be run as non-root
331 * Automatically respond to PAM messages without prompts
332 * Create 'AddLocalXSeat' D-Bus method, and require root to use 'AddSeat'
333 * Fix multi-seat configuration picking the same display number
334 * Use correct D-Bus and power interface in liblightdm-qt
335 * Run pam_setcred inside the session process so pam_group works
336 * Make sure one session is always selected in the GTK greeter
338 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.7
340 * Set PAM_TTY to the display name, not the tty device
342 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.6
344 * Only unlock displays if switched to from greeter
345 * Make log file not system readable
346 * Write ~/.Xauthority inside the session process so it cannot be hijacked
347 * Set PAM_TTY and PAM_XDISPLAY when opening PAM session
348 * Add VNC server support
349 * Do not write ~/.dmrc and ~/.Xauthority as root. [CVE-2011-3349]
351 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.5
353 * Use accounts service in the daemon if it is available
354 * Correctly load seat type in multi seat configuration
355 * Add display-setup, session-setup and session-cleanup scripting hooks
356 * Fix cancel button in GTK greeter
357 * Fix line through GTK greeter menu items
358 * Exit daemon if a seat fails which has exit-on-failure set to true
359 * Add HasGuestAccount property to seat D-Bus interface
360 * Fix XDMCP authorization
363 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.4
365 * lightdm-set-defaults enables tweaking the default session and chosen
366 greeter for lightdm. This is useful for derivatives waiting to not ship
367 the whole configuration file of lightdm
368 * Fix crash in GTK+ greeter when a user is added
369 * Move xsessions-directory and xgreeters-directory from [SeatDefaults] to
370 [LightDM]. This is a configuration break, but making it on the assumption
371 that these settings are not likely to have been overridden.
372 * Fix fallback from org.freedesktop.Accounts to passwd format
373 * Fix duplicate user entries being shown when using passwd file
374 * Add AddSeat D-Bus method for adding dynamic seats
375 * Added a dm-tool program that allows user switching and adding seats
376 * Allow remote X servers, e.g. launched using dm-tool add-nested-seat
377 * Fix bug where sessions were started when the greeter quit and the user
378 hadn't been authorized.
379 * Fix bug where sessions used the seat bus name
380 * Don't allow autologin-username to be set to empty
381 * Fix bug where PAM session was not opened before writing to home directory
382 * Fix crash when failing to write X authority
384 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.3
386 * Unlock ConsoleKit sessions when switching to them
387 * Add a gdmflexiserver binary that provides backwards compatibility with
389 * Set XDG_SEAT_PATH and XDG_SESSION_PATH environment variables for sessions.
390 * Always set XAUTHORITY environment variable so sudo keeps accessing the
392 * Connect up lightdm_user_get_logged_in in liblightdm-gobject
393 * Ignore sessions that fail TryExec or are hidden
394 * Add missing home_directory User property missing in Vala bindings
396 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.2
398 * Fix annotation and Vala bindings for getting the UserList singleton
399 * Fix GTK+ greeter error label not being shown
400 * Don't set SIGQUIT to ignore in child processes
401 * Reworked the PAM code as ecryptfs users weren't able to log in. They
402 can now but not sure what changed to fix that!?
404 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.1
406 * Fix up translation build system
407 * Add a --with-greeter-user configure option
408 * Fix greeter-user configuration not being used
409 * Abort greeter if attempted to be run as root and greeter-user set
410 * Fix setting session in GTK+ greeter
412 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.0
414 * Fix invalid XAUTHORITY variable being set for second X server.
415 * Fix bug where switching users created X servers without VTs
416 * Release a VT when the X server on it stops
417 * Greeters are now just standard X sessions that are stored in
418 /usr/share/xgreeters.
419 * Binaries now installed in /usr/sbin
420 * Drop most of the configure options, they aren't necessary
422 - Major reorginisation of configuration to make it easier to configure and
423 understand. Users should set [SeatDefaults] section with settings for
424 all seats, and can override each setting in a per seat configuration.
425 - Default seats are now specified using a [Seat:<name>] section. If no seats
426 are specified then one is started. This can be overridden by setting
427 start-default-seat=false in [LightDM].
428 - Support setting autologin user to guest account
429 - Split the user accounts configuration into /etc/lightdm/users.conf so the
430 main config can be private.
431 - The default user session is now "default". Distributions should put a
432 symlink to their chosen default or set one in lightdm.conf.
433 - XDMCP keys now stored in keys.conf
434 * liblightdm API changes:
435 - Both libraries are now version 1 and have API and ABI guarantees.
436 - Face images are now local paths not URIs
437 - liblightdm-gobject now uses lightdm_ prefix instead of ldm_
438 - Non-greeter functions are now moved out of the Greeter class
439 - connect_to_server() is now called connect_sync and blocks until
441 - start_session() is now called start_session_sync and blocks until
442 completion. The quit signal is removed, and the greeter should quit if
443 this method returns TRUE.
444 - login() is now called authenticate()
445 - Greeters now have hints instead of configuration (greeters should load their
446 own configuration from /etc/lightdm if they need it).
447 - liblightdm-gobject uses AccountsService if it is available
448 - Added regression tests for liblightdm-qt
450 - Expose Seats and Sessions on org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
451 - Add a CanSwitch property
452 - Rename ShowGreeter() to SwitchToGreeter()
454 - Drop "example" from the name of the GTK+ and Qt greeters and make them
455 official default greeters.
456 - Use GTK3 for GTK+ greeter.
457 - Removed the Vala and Python GTK+ greeters, they weren't being well
460 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.4
462 * Fix failure to accept XDMCP connections due to invalid assert.
463 * Allow minimum-display-number to be set in lightdm.conf and on the command
465 * Session X authority now written to ~/.Xauthority by default. It can be
466 configured to run from the system location by setting
467 user-authority-in-system-dir=true in lightdm.conf.
468 * When using system authority the authority can be updated by the user.
469 * Written X authority files now checks hostname and display number.
470 * Enironment is no longer passed through to X servers and sessions, this is
471 no longer required now PAM works correctly.
472 * liblightdm API changes:
473 - Drop ldm_greeter_get_is_first() - it was added for testing and doesn't
475 * Fix more errors where authentication messages from previous sessions could
476 be confused with new sessions.
477 * Added XDMCP regression tests.
479 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.3
481 * Don't replace Plymouth if it isn't running on a valid VT
482 * Allow a null username to log in with - the system will prompt for a
484 * liblightdm API changes:
485 - Rename ldm_greeter_provide_secret to ldm_greeter_respond - responses
487 - show-prompt signal now has a PromptType field
488 - show-message signal now has a MessageType field and takes over
489 behaviour of show-error signal
490 * Fix error where an authentication failure from a previous session could
491 be interpreted as a failure in the current session.
492 * Simplify Vala bindings and add missing methods
494 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.2
496 * Fix errors communicating with PAM
497 * Fix interaction with Plytmouth.
498 * Removes the vt option in lightdm.conf, this is no longer required
499 and the active is used for the first display if Plymouth is
500 detected. A new option minimum-vt is added to select the first
501 VT to be used for other displays.
502 * On login switch to an existing session if already logged in with that
504 * Correctly connect up D-Bus interface for user switching
506 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.1
508 * Fix linking issue with -z,defs
509 * Added guest account support
510 * Restart X server if it crashes during a session
511 * Don't set language environment variables, use the daemon values
512 (system default) and leave it to ~/.profile for users to set these
513 * Change greeter library API, starting a session no longer has a language
515 * Fix greeter crash when user accounts change
517 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.0
519 * Fix crash when child processes quit
520 * Fix crash when catching signals
521 * Fix crash when session quits after X server
522 * Add internal checking for NULL object access
523 * Correctly handle signals from external programs (Thanks to Jason Conti)
524 * liblightdm API changes:
525 - ldm_greeter_start_authentication becomes ldm_greeter_login
526 - The existing ldm_greeter_login is now ldm_greeter_start_session
527 and the username parameter is not required.
528 - Drop ldm_greeter_get_default_layout (X controls the layout)
529 * Configuration changes:
530 - Use /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf instead of /etc/lightdm.conf
531 - The "displays" item is now called "seats". LightDM will fallback to
532 "displays" if "seats" is not defined, but this is deprecated and will
533 be removed by version 1.0.
534 - Make X server configuration a separate section and now has new options
535 * Automatic login users now use PAM session lightdm-autologin
536 * Use org.freedesktop.DisplayManager instead of
537 org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager for D-Bus name
538 * Add regression tests
539 * Allow many more options to be set from the command line
541 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.7
543 * Fix autologin broken in 0.3.3
545 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.6
547 * Disable Plymouth when starting
548 * Allow display vt setting to be set to "active" to start on active VT
549 * Fix login in Qt example greeter
550 * Fix typo for High Contrast menu item (GTK example greeter)
552 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.5
554 * Set working directory when logging in
555 * Massive improvements to Qt greeter
556 * Fix XDMCP authentication/authorization errors
557 * Have the daemon open a connection to a local X server
558 * Tidy up some debugging messages
560 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.4
562 * Updates to liblightdm-qt
563 * Fix --with-cache-dir not working
564 * Set greeterdir in .pc files to point to where greeter engines should be
567 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.3
569 * Don't run in test-mode if Xephyr cannot be found
570 * Fix daemon using 100% CPU after greeter quits
571 * Fix crash when users don't have GECOS data
572 * Greeters can now detect user add/remove events
573 * Fix ConsoleKit support broken with switch to GDBus
574 * Correctly clean up X processes on exit
575 * Wait for greeter to quit before running user session (fixes problem with
578 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.2
580 * Distribute GTK greeter .ui file
582 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.1
584 * Add greeter login_with_defaults method
585 * Add example to the name of all the greeters
586 * Set the configuration for the default display to use VT 7
587 * Fix the vt setting for displays, it was incorrectly named tty
588 * Fix crash when load-users is false in UserManager
589 * Fix up name of .vapi file so it can be used directly from valac
590 * Tidy up Qt library and greeter
591 * Move menubar in greeters to top of screen
592 * Fix console kit get_can_*() methods
593 * Use GtkBuilder for example GTK greeter
595 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.0
597 * Correctly pass environment variables through to the session
598 * Allow starting virtual terminal to be configured
599 * Replace D-Bus greeter communication with a private pipe
600 * Use GDBus instead of dbus-glib
601 * Use the engine process name instead of a hardcoded value in theme files
602 * Rename ldm_greeter_connect to ldm_greeter_connect_to_server so it doesn't
603 clash with GObject method name
604 * Rename ldm-gtk-greeter to lightdm-gtk-greeter
605 * Rename gnome theme to example-gtk-gnome
606 * Add more annotations to liblightdm-gobject
607 * Add an example PyGObject, Vala and QT greeter
608 * Generate metadata for QT libraries
609 * Move Webkit greeter into separate module
611 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.3
613 * Set correct linking library names in pkg-config files
614 * Handle session executables that take arguments
616 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.2
618 * Make default themedir work when --prefix is not passed to configure
619 * Look for face images in ~/.face and ~/.face.icon
620 * Put .vapi file in unversioned vala directory
621 * Fix compiling without QT
622 * Choose the VT to open the display on
623 * Set correct group memberships for sessions (Yves-Alexis Perez)
624 * Set permissions on xauthority file so it can only be read by the owning
625 user (Yves-Alexis Perez)
626 * Set correct permissions on ~/.dmrc (Yves-Alexis Perez)
627 * Add --enable-liblightdm-gobject, --enable-liblightdm-qt configure option
628 * Set environment variables from PAM (Yves-Alexis Perez)
630 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.1
632 * Use "lightdm" as default PAM service and make it configurable
633 * Rename libldmgreeter to libldmgreeter-gobject
634 * Add libldmgreeter-qt (David Edmundson)
635 * Fix gobject-introspection build
636 * Renamed libldmgreeter to liblightdm
637 * Install a .vapi file
639 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.0
641 * Make default user configuration per-display
642 * Only automatically login the first time
643 * Fix WebKit theme loading and automatic login
644 * Do cross fade for sessions that support it
645 (set X-LightDM-Supports-Transitions=true in their xsession file)
646 * Load user settings from ~/.dmrc
647 * Add configuration for default language/layout
648 * Change language/layout/session when user selected in GTK+ greeter
649 * Set default keyboard layout on first login
650 * Don't run all sessions throught /etc/X11/XSession - make the session
651 wrapper optional and configurable.
652 * Make pkgconfig file require libxklavier
653 * Only compile greeters if have dependencies
654 * Include ck-connector code to reduce library dependencies
655 * Add introspection.m4 to the source tree
656 * Support using no greeter user in lightdm.conf
657 * Flush writes to main log file
658 * Allow non-privilidged user to write greeter log file in /var
659 * Fix bugs stopping running greeter as priviledged user (i.e. root)
660 * Don't default to running greeters with the GDM user - it may not exist!
662 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.2
665 * Make user switcher API work
666 * Add a AddDisplay D-Bus method to start new displays
667 * Feed signals to GLib main loop via a pipe
668 * Add an upstart script
669 * Make theme files more similar to existing themes
670 * Change dbus namespace from org.freedesktop.LightDisplayManager to
671 org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager
672 * Write debug log to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log instead of stdout. Use
673 --debug for the previous behaviour
674 * Add exec_prefix into libldmgreeter.pc
675 * Change versioned include and pkgconfig files from 1 to 0
676 * Add themedir variable into pkgconfig file
677 * Connect language list in GTK greeter to login language
679 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.1
681 * Change licence of libldmgreeter from GPL to LGPL
682 * Write X server and session output to log files
683 * Set PATH, DESKTOP_SESSION, GDMSESSION and USERNAME environment variables
684 * Run sessions through Xsession
685 * Close all X servers on exit
686 * Send SIGHUP to X server when returning to greeter (makes all clients quit)
687 * Change authorization after a session ends so previous session does not get
689 * Make shutdown buttons work in GTK+ greeter
690 * Make user manager configurable
691 * Make GTK+ greeter show username entry if no user list
692 * Hide C and POSIX languages in greeter
693 * Load language and layout from .dmrc file
695 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.0
697 * Make --test-mode which runs as the current user
698 * Support displays acting as XDMCP terminals
699 * Support MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 and XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 authorization
700 * Support XDMCP over IPv6
702 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.4
704 * Support XDMCP logins
706 * Clean up resources on exit
707 * Create gettext instance in WebKit greeter
709 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.3
711 * Wait for signal from X server before starting session
713 * Add keyboard layout API
714 * Add gettext support to the WebKit greeter
716 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.2
718 * Fix installation of D-Bus service file
719 * Allow DISPLAY env variable to be passed to X server so can run Xephyr
720 * Handle no automatic login in webkit theme
722 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.1