1 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.14
3 * Correctly set permissions on Xauthority file.
5 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.13
7 * Correctly set $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP for non-autologin sessions
8 * Fix overallocation of array for strings from greeter.
9 * Fix truncation writing card32 in XDMCP server.
11 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.12
13 * Add xdg-seat config setting
14 * Notify Unity System Compositor of the session being authenticated
16 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.11
18 * Fix crash when greeter quits due to read watch not being removed
19 * Correctly setup Unity System Compositor environment
20 * Improve log messages
22 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.10
24 * Fix session locking broken in 1.7.5
25 * Load lightdm.conf after lightdm.conf.d/*.conf
26 * Also support loading config from /usr/share
27 * When switching sessions show a greeter if authentication required
28 * Set $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP if specified in the xsession file
29 * Change logging prefixes to make it easier to troubleshoot multiseat setups
30 * Bring Ubuntu packaging in-tree
32 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.9
34 * Correctly set XDG_VTNR for unity sessions that are not autologin.
36 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.8
38 * Add support for Mir sessions and greeters.
39 * Set XDG_VTNR for unity sessions.
40 * Fix desktop-session-start upstart signal not being emitted since 1.7.5.
41 * Fix greeter log broken in 1.7.5.
43 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.7
45 * Fix uninitialized pointer introduced in 1.7.3
46 * Enable compile warnings and fix code generating warnings
48 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.6
50 * Restore greeter hints that were regressed in 1.7.5.
51 * Don't run greeters through session wrapper - regression in 1.7.5
53 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.5
55 * Quit Plymouth correctly when using the unity seat type
56 * Release the VT when the system compositor fails to start
57 * Load sessions and greeters from /usr/share/lightdm/sessions and
58 /usr/share/lightdm/greeters. The existing directories are checked
59 if the sessions are not in these directories.
60 * Refactor the Display class so that it merges with the Seat class
61 * Support running the greeter and session in different display servers
62 instead of re-using the same one during a login.
63 * Add more regression tests
66 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.4
68 * Set XDG_SEAT and XDG_VTNR environment variables.
69 * Add initial support for Unity (i.e. Mir based) seats.
70 * Add a greeter wrapper option.
72 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.3
74 * Load configuration from /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d.
75 * Fix compile warnings
76 * Fix tests not running from install directory inside checkout.
78 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.2
80 * Fix incorrectly distributed guest-session apparmor data
82 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.1
84 * Fix .pc file for liblightdm-qt5-3
85 * Add a new option "autologin-in-background" which lets an autologin happen
86 in a second display while still showing the greeter.
87 * Stop if fail to create default seat
88 * Add option to set seat type in lightdm-set-defaults
89 * Stop using g_file_set_contents - it can leave intermediate files around
90 * Make tests work without installing them
93 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.0
95 * Use logind instead of ConsoleKit if it is available
96 * Use Q_SLOTS and Q_SIGNALS instead of slots and signals.
97 * Ignore stale X server locks
98 * Pass through system locale or set locale from AccountsService/.dmrc
99 * Fix bug where seat failure before D-Bus acquired would not stop daemon
101 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.6.0
103 * Allow VNC command to be specified in lightdm.conf
104 * Register enums with QObject meta type system.
106 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.3
108 * Fix build with gobject-introspection 1.35.9
109 * Fix authentication cancel regression caused in 1.5.2
111 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.2
113 * Fix stale X server being left behind when using LockSession D-Bus API
114 * Adjust AppArmor profile to also work with logind
115 * Don't use GIO to access X authority files - it uses GVFS which is
116 unnecessary overhead/complexity
117 * Handle over/underflows when reading from greeter
118 * Improve warning message when XDMCP packet has length mismatch
119 * Only report test command line if it fails
120 * Add more regression tests
122 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.1
124 * QLightDM: Add Qt5 version of the library: liblightdm-qt5-2
125 * QLightDM: Add some missing role names in UsersModel
126 * QLightDM: Add a backgroundPath role to UsersModel
127 * QLightDM: Fix potential crash in QLightDM::UsersModel closedown.
128 * Improve guest session apparmor
129 * Run each test in its own /tmp dir so they can't interfere with eachother
130 * Fix script hooks no longer working with latest glib
131 * Fix display clean up code
133 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.0
135 * Add man page for lightdm-set-defaults
136 * Use xzip for distribution, don't distribute old metadata
137 * Correctly check if display is active when session quits
138 * Relicense liblightdm to LGPL-2/LGPL-3 so GPL-2 code can link against it
139 * Selectively lock memory rather than calling mlockall for main daemon
141 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.4.1
143 * Fix autologin PAM configuration
145 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.4.0
147 * Correctly implement and test autologin timeouts
148 * Add greeter-show-remote-login hint
149 * Correctly annotate enums in vapi file
150 * QLightDM: Add default constructor to Qt power interface
151 * QLightDM: Expose image path in UserModel
152 * QLightDM: Add parameter to session model to show either local or remote
154 * Fix race conditions in tests
156 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.3
158 * Add a new remote session type. These sessions create a temporary local
159 account and authenticate against a remote server. The session is an
160 application that accesses that remote session (e.g. VNC, RDP etc)
161 * Support multiple simultaneous PAM prompts
162 * Set utmp ut_host field to the X display address
163 * Correctly reap unused authentication sessions
165 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.2
167 * Handle clearenv() not being defined
168 * Fix compilation with GCC 4.7
169 * Expose remaining properties in QLightDM::Greeter
170 * Fix utmp records being written before child process created
172 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.1
174 * Fix wrapper path in AppArmor profile (broken since 1.1.1)
175 * Add show-manual-login and allow-guest options to lightdm-set-defaults
176 * Don't set PAM_XDISPLAY or PAM_XAUTHDATA if not supported
177 * Add lock-memory option, enabled by default, to prevent paging memory
179 * Write utmp records for sessions
180 * Install PAM configuration
181 * Run greeters inside the "lightdm-greeter" PAM service
182 * Handle setresgid and setresuid not being available
183 * Use xsession directory from lightdm.conf in liblightdm
185 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.2.0
187 * Backup .xsession-errors on login
188 * Handle failures in pam_setcred
189 * Open log files in append mode
190 * Add extra checks in liblightdm so that it doesn't send invalid messages
192 * Fix gdmflexiserver not being added to the path (broken since 1.1.4)
193 * Fix PAM conversations after authentication from locking up sessions
194 * Fix PAM informational messages locking up autologin
195 * Change XDMCP manage timeout from 10ms to 126s (maximum specified in the
198 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.9
200 * Add --show-users/--hide-users to lightdm-set-defaults
201 * Call initgroups before pam_setcred - this allows pam_setcred to change
202 group membership correctly
204 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.8
206 * Handle PAM interactions that have more than one message in one callback
208 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.7
210 * Add a seat option greeter-allow-guest which controls if the greeter should
211 provide an option to access the guest account.
212 * Add a seat option greeter-show-manual-login which hints to a greeter if it
213 should show a manual username entry if a user list is already present.
215 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.6
217 * Fix session wrapper working the same as it did in 1.1.3
219 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.5
221 * Stop file descriptors leaking into the session processes
223 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.4
225 * Change session directory once user permissions are set so it works
226 on NFS filesystems that don't allow root to access files.
227 * Restructure session code so the PAM authentication is run in its
229 * Set PAM_XDISPLAY and PAM_XAUTHDATA pam items
230 * Don't send session stdout to .xsession-errors
231 * Fix Qt bindings crash when removing a user
233 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.3
235 * Actually return the system default keyboard layout, not just 'us'
236 * Add keyboard layout variants to list of keyboard layouts
237 * Check accountsservice as well as .dmrc for users' layouts
238 * Add lightdm_user_get_layouts() to query the configured list of layouts
240 * Add Lock D-Bus method that locks the seat and provides a hint to the
241 greeter to be in lock mode.
242 * Automatically lock sessions when switching away from them
243 * Add a has-messages property to liblightdm
244 * Add regression tests for PAM modules changing usernames
245 * Don't use g_key_file_unref, it requires glib 2.32
247 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.2
249 * Add regression tests for getting the user language and layout
250 * Stop accidentally distributing libsystem
251 * Fix introspection bindings not containing any methods
252 * lightdm-set-defaults can now set the autologin user
253 * Add Python greeter regression tests (representative of all introspection
255 * Wait for the VT to become active when switching to avoid a suspected
256 race condition somewhere between LightDM, X, ConsoleKit and the kernel.
257 * Stop lightdm_greeter_start_session_sync() blocking on success.
259 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.1
261 * Add a --disable-tests option
262 * Add note to AUTHORS file where to find author list
263 * Update build system to find moc/uic
264 * Fix non-distributed tests/src/lightdm-session
265 * Fix X sessions with arguments in Exec not working
266 * Use previous session for automatic login or if greeter does not request
268 * Set default resolution of VNC to 1024x768, add settings for width, height,
269 depth into lightdm.conf.
270 * AppArmor profile: Fix broken gnome-keyring and dbus/gwibber, and quiesce
271 annoying kernel audit messages for privileges that we definitively do not
273 * Set LOGNAME environment variable
274 * Don't set USERNAME environment variable - this is not specified in POSIX,
275 please report if this causes any major problems.
276 * Drop privileges when reading ~/.dmrc
277 * Move the GTK+ and Qt greeters into their own projects
278 * Fix crash when quitting with newer GLib
279 * Fix crash calling lightdm_get_layout
280 * Support for reading users' backgrounds from Accounts Service
281 * Fix --debug working with new glib
282 * Support PAM requesting a change of password
283 * Update build system to work with automake 1.11.2
284 * Run tests inside their own system D-Bus, simulating ConsoleKit and
286 * Add regression test for users that have their home directory created after
288 * Move lightdm-guest-session from libexec to pkglibexec directory
290 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.0
292 * Remove GetSeatForCookie and GetSessionForCookie D-Bus methods
293 * Switching to a user without a password bypasses the greeter
294 * Use LD_PRELOAD to intercept system calls for testing
295 * Removed the --passwd-file option as not required for testing anymore
296 * Rename test-xserver to X and remove --xserver-command option
297 * Make a test session wrapper and remove --session-wrapper option
298 * Remove unused --user-session, --greeter-session, --minimum-vt,
299 --minimum-display-number options
300 * Use 'default' as the default greeter (make a symlink)
301 * GTK greeter now initializes i18n
302 * GTK greeter now remembers last user
303 * Start authentication for automtically selected user in GTK greeter
304 * Don't resize GTK greeter on each click
305 * Start authentication when scrolling through GTK greeter entries
306 * Link liblightdm-qt against QtGui
307 * Fix liblightdm-qt crashing when face images are installed
308 * Set correct permissions on session log files
309 * Introduce a lightdm-guest-session-wrapper session command which MAC
310 systems like AppArmor and SELinux can use for attaching a restrictive
311 policy to guest sessions.
312 * Provide an AppArmor profile for guest session lockdown.
313 * Fix daemon from blocking if Accounts Service does not exist
314 * Fix greeter log file not being written
315 * Don't set LANG environment variable if using Accounts Service.
316 * Fix gdmflexiserver not working due to it not being in PATH
317 * Don't authenticate the greeter user
318 * Allow greeters to be disabled in configure flags
319 * Fix over allocation of read buffer in greeter protocol
320 * Make sure objects are cleaned up on exit
321 * Fix minor memory leaks
322 * Fix reference counting issue in ConsoleKit code
323 * Fix --enable-gtk-greeter=yes not working
325 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.0.0
327 * Explicitly grab keyboard focus in GTK greeter
328 * Fix removed power and a11y menu items in GTK greeter
329 * Put system binary directory into path when running in test mode
330 * Call pam_getenvlist after pam_setcred
332 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.8
334 * GetSeatForCookie and GetSessionForCookie are now deprecated. They
335 remain for now but use the XDG_SEAT_PATH and XDG_SESSION_PATH
336 environment variables instead.
337 * Change log filenames to be unique across different display types.
338 * Fix up script hooks, add regression tests for them
339 * Complete removal of X code from the core of LightDM, so it can better
340 support various display types
341 * Add ability to set the language of a user from the greeter
342 * Set LANG variable based on the user language
343 * Add language selector into GTK greeter (disabled by default)
344 * Allow TCP/IP connections if xserver-allow-tcp is true
345 * Allow lightdm --version to be run as non-root
346 * Automatically respond to PAM messages without prompts
347 * Create 'AddLocalXSeat' D-Bus method, and require root to use 'AddSeat'
348 * Fix multi-seat configuration picking the same display number
349 * Use correct D-Bus and power interface in liblightdm-qt
350 * Run pam_setcred inside the session process so pam_group works
351 * Make sure one session is always selected in the GTK greeter
353 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.7
355 * Set PAM_TTY to the display name, not the tty device
357 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.6
359 * Only unlock displays if switched to from greeter
360 * Make log file not system readable
361 * Write ~/.Xauthority inside the session process so it cannot be hijacked
362 * Set PAM_TTY and PAM_XDISPLAY when opening PAM session
363 * Add VNC server support
364 * Do not write ~/.dmrc and ~/.Xauthority as root. [CVE-2011-3349]
366 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.5
368 * Use accounts service in the daemon if it is available
369 * Correctly load seat type in multi seat configuration
370 * Add display-setup, session-setup and session-cleanup scripting hooks
371 * Fix cancel button in GTK greeter
372 * Fix line through GTK greeter menu items
373 * Exit daemon if a seat fails which has exit-on-failure set to true
374 * Add HasGuestAccount property to seat D-Bus interface
375 * Fix XDMCP authorization
378 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.4
380 * lightdm-set-defaults enables tweaking the default session and chosen
381 greeter for lightdm. This is useful for derivatives waiting to not ship
382 the whole configuration file of lightdm
383 * Fix crash in GTK+ greeter when a user is added
384 * Move xsessions-directory and xgreeters-directory from [SeatDefaults] to
385 [LightDM]. This is a configuration break, but making it on the assumption
386 that these settings are not likely to have been overridden.
387 * Fix fallback from org.freedesktop.Accounts to passwd format
388 * Fix duplicate user entries being shown when using passwd file
389 * Add AddSeat D-Bus method for adding dynamic seats
390 * Added a dm-tool program that allows user switching and adding seats
391 * Allow remote X servers, e.g. launched using dm-tool add-nested-seat
392 * Fix bug where sessions were started when the greeter quit and the user
393 hadn't been authorized.
394 * Fix bug where sessions used the seat bus name
395 * Don't allow autologin-username to be set to empty
396 * Fix bug where PAM session was not opened before writing to home directory
397 * Fix crash when failing to write X authority
399 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.3
401 * Unlock ConsoleKit sessions when switching to them
402 * Add a gdmflexiserver binary that provides backwards compatibility with
404 * Set XDG_SEAT_PATH and XDG_SESSION_PATH environment variables for sessions.
405 * Always set XAUTHORITY environment variable so sudo keeps accessing the
407 * Connect up lightdm_user_get_logged_in in liblightdm-gobject
408 * Ignore sessions that fail TryExec or are hidden
409 * Add missing home_directory User property missing in Vala bindings
411 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.2
413 * Fix annotation and Vala bindings for getting the UserList singleton
414 * Fix GTK+ greeter error label not being shown
415 * Don't set SIGQUIT to ignore in child processes
416 * Reworked the PAM code as ecryptfs users weren't able to log in. They
417 can now but not sure what changed to fix that!?
419 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.1
421 * Fix up translation build system
422 * Add a --with-greeter-user configure option
423 * Fix greeter-user configuration not being used
424 * Abort greeter if attempted to be run as root and greeter-user set
425 * Fix setting session in GTK+ greeter
427 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.0
429 * Fix invalid XAUTHORITY variable being set for second X server.
430 * Fix bug where switching users created X servers without VTs
431 * Release a VT when the X server on it stops
432 * Greeters are now just standard X sessions that are stored in
433 /usr/share/xgreeters.
434 * Binaries now installed in /usr/sbin
435 * Drop most of the configure options, they aren't necessary
437 - Major reorginisation of configuration to make it easier to configure and
438 understand. Users should set [SeatDefaults] section with settings for
439 all seats, and can override each setting in a per seat configuration.
440 - Default seats are now specified using a [Seat:<name>] section. If no seats
441 are specified then one is started. This can be overridden by setting
442 start-default-seat=false in [LightDM].
443 - Support setting autologin user to guest account
444 - Split the user accounts configuration into /etc/lightdm/users.conf so the
445 main config can be private.
446 - The default user session is now "default". Distributions should put a
447 symlink to their chosen default or set one in lightdm.conf.
448 - XDMCP keys now stored in keys.conf
449 * liblightdm API changes:
450 - Both libraries are now version 1 and have API and ABI guarantees.
451 - Face images are now local paths not URIs
452 - liblightdm-gobject now uses lightdm_ prefix instead of ldm_
453 - Non-greeter functions are now moved out of the Greeter class
454 - connect_to_server() is now called connect_sync and blocks until
456 - start_session() is now called start_session_sync and blocks until
457 completion. The quit signal is removed, and the greeter should quit if
458 this method returns TRUE.
459 - login() is now called authenticate()
460 - Greeters now have hints instead of configuration (greeters should load their
461 own configuration from /etc/lightdm if they need it).
462 - liblightdm-gobject uses AccountsService if it is available
463 - Added regression tests for liblightdm-qt
465 - Expose Seats and Sessions on org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
466 - Add a CanSwitch property
467 - Rename ShowGreeter() to SwitchToGreeter()
469 - Drop "example" from the name of the GTK+ and Qt greeters and make them
470 official default greeters.
471 - Use GTK3 for GTK+ greeter.
472 - Removed the Vala and Python GTK+ greeters, they weren't being well
475 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.4
477 * Fix failure to accept XDMCP connections due to invalid assert.
478 * Allow minimum-display-number to be set in lightdm.conf and on the command
480 * Session X authority now written to ~/.Xauthority by default. It can be
481 configured to run from the system location by setting
482 user-authority-in-system-dir=true in lightdm.conf.
483 * When using system authority the authority can be updated by the user.
484 * Written X authority files now checks hostname and display number.
485 * Enironment is no longer passed through to X servers and sessions, this is
486 no longer required now PAM works correctly.
487 * liblightdm API changes:
488 - Drop ldm_greeter_get_is_first() - it was added for testing and doesn't
490 * Fix more errors where authentication messages from previous sessions could
491 be confused with new sessions.
492 * Added XDMCP regression tests.
494 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.3
496 * Don't replace Plymouth if it isn't running on a valid VT
497 * Allow a null username to log in with - the system will prompt for a
499 * liblightdm API changes:
500 - Rename ldm_greeter_provide_secret to ldm_greeter_respond - responses
502 - show-prompt signal now has a PromptType field
503 - show-message signal now has a MessageType field and takes over
504 behaviour of show-error signal
505 * Fix error where an authentication failure from a previous session could
506 be interpreted as a failure in the current session.
507 * Simplify Vala bindings and add missing methods
509 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.2
511 * Fix errors communicating with PAM
512 * Fix interaction with Plytmouth.
513 * Removes the vt option in lightdm.conf, this is no longer required
514 and the active is used for the first display if Plymouth is
515 detected. A new option minimum-vt is added to select the first
516 VT to be used for other displays.
517 * On login switch to an existing session if already logged in with that
519 * Correctly connect up D-Bus interface for user switching
521 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.1
523 * Fix linking issue with -z,defs
524 * Added guest account support
525 * Restart X server if it crashes during a session
526 * Don't set language environment variables, use the daemon values
527 (system default) and leave it to ~/.profile for users to set these
528 * Change greeter library API, starting a session no longer has a language
530 * Fix greeter crash when user accounts change
532 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.0
534 * Fix crash when child processes quit
535 * Fix crash when catching signals
536 * Fix crash when session quits after X server
537 * Add internal checking for NULL object access
538 * Correctly handle signals from external programs (Thanks to Jason Conti)
539 * liblightdm API changes:
540 - ldm_greeter_start_authentication becomes ldm_greeter_login
541 - The existing ldm_greeter_login is now ldm_greeter_start_session
542 and the username parameter is not required.
543 - Drop ldm_greeter_get_default_layout (X controls the layout)
544 * Configuration changes:
545 - Use /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf instead of /etc/lightdm.conf
546 - The "displays" item is now called "seats". LightDM will fallback to
547 "displays" if "seats" is not defined, but this is deprecated and will
548 be removed by version 1.0.
549 - Make X server configuration a separate section and now has new options
550 * Automatic login users now use PAM session lightdm-autologin
551 * Use org.freedesktop.DisplayManager instead of
552 org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager for D-Bus name
553 * Add regression tests
554 * Allow many more options to be set from the command line
556 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.7
558 * Fix autologin broken in 0.3.3
560 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.6
562 * Disable Plymouth when starting
563 * Allow display vt setting to be set to "active" to start on active VT
564 * Fix login in Qt example greeter
565 * Fix typo for High Contrast menu item (GTK example greeter)
567 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.5
569 * Set working directory when logging in
570 * Massive improvements to Qt greeter
571 * Fix XDMCP authentication/authorization errors
572 * Have the daemon open a connection to a local X server
573 * Tidy up some debugging messages
575 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.4
577 * Updates to liblightdm-qt
578 * Fix --with-cache-dir not working
579 * Set greeterdir in .pc files to point to where greeter engines should be
582 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.3
584 * Don't run in test-mode if Xephyr cannot be found
585 * Fix daemon using 100% CPU after greeter quits
586 * Fix crash when users don't have GECOS data
587 * Greeters can now detect user add/remove events
588 * Fix ConsoleKit support broken with switch to GDBus
589 * Correctly clean up X processes on exit
590 * Wait for greeter to quit before running user session (fixes problem with
593 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.2
595 * Distribute GTK greeter .ui file
597 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.1
599 * Add greeter login_with_defaults method
600 * Add example to the name of all the greeters
601 * Set the configuration for the default display to use VT 7
602 * Fix the vt setting for displays, it was incorrectly named tty
603 * Fix crash when load-users is false in UserManager
604 * Fix up name of .vapi file so it can be used directly from valac
605 * Tidy up Qt library and greeter
606 * Move menubar in greeters to top of screen
607 * Fix console kit get_can_*() methods
608 * Use GtkBuilder for example GTK greeter
610 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.0
612 * Correctly pass environment variables through to the session
613 * Allow starting virtual terminal to be configured
614 * Replace D-Bus greeter communication with a private pipe
615 * Use GDBus instead of dbus-glib
616 * Use the engine process name instead of a hardcoded value in theme files
617 * Rename ldm_greeter_connect to ldm_greeter_connect_to_server so it doesn't
618 clash with GObject method name
619 * Rename ldm-gtk-greeter to lightdm-gtk-greeter
620 * Rename gnome theme to example-gtk-gnome
621 * Add more annotations to liblightdm-gobject
622 * Add an example PyGObject, Vala and QT greeter
623 * Generate metadata for QT libraries
624 * Move Webkit greeter into separate module
626 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.3
628 * Set correct linking library names in pkg-config files
629 * Handle session executables that take arguments
631 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.2
633 * Make default themedir work when --prefix is not passed to configure
634 * Look for face images in ~/.face and ~/.face.icon
635 * Put .vapi file in unversioned vala directory
636 * Fix compiling without QT
637 * Choose the VT to open the display on
638 * Set correct group memberships for sessions (Yves-Alexis Perez)
639 * Set permissions on xauthority file so it can only be read by the owning
640 user (Yves-Alexis Perez)
641 * Set correct permissions on ~/.dmrc (Yves-Alexis Perez)
642 * Add --enable-liblightdm-gobject, --enable-liblightdm-qt configure option
643 * Set environment variables from PAM (Yves-Alexis Perez)
645 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.1
647 * Use "lightdm" as default PAM service and make it configurable
648 * Rename libldmgreeter to libldmgreeter-gobject
649 * Add libldmgreeter-qt (David Edmundson)
650 * Fix gobject-introspection build
651 * Renamed libldmgreeter to liblightdm
652 * Install a .vapi file
654 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.0
656 * Make default user configuration per-display
657 * Only automatically login the first time
658 * Fix WebKit theme loading and automatic login
659 * Do cross fade for sessions that support it
660 (set X-LightDM-Supports-Transitions=true in their xsession file)
661 * Load user settings from ~/.dmrc
662 * Add configuration for default language/layout
663 * Change language/layout/session when user selected in GTK+ greeter
664 * Set default keyboard layout on first login
665 * Don't run all sessions throught /etc/X11/XSession - make the session
666 wrapper optional and configurable.
667 * Make pkgconfig file require libxklavier
668 * Only compile greeters if have dependencies
669 * Include ck-connector code to reduce library dependencies
670 * Add introspection.m4 to the source tree
671 * Support using no greeter user in lightdm.conf
672 * Flush writes to main log file
673 * Allow non-privilidged user to write greeter log file in /var
674 * Fix bugs stopping running greeter as priviledged user (i.e. root)
675 * Don't default to running greeters with the GDM user - it may not exist!
677 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.2
680 * Make user switcher API work
681 * Add a AddDisplay D-Bus method to start new displays
682 * Feed signals to GLib main loop via a pipe
683 * Add an upstart script
684 * Make theme files more similar to existing themes
685 * Change dbus namespace from org.freedesktop.LightDisplayManager to
686 org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager
687 * Write debug log to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log instead of stdout. Use
688 --debug for the previous behaviour
689 * Add exec_prefix into libldmgreeter.pc
690 * Change versioned include and pkgconfig files from 1 to 0
691 * Add themedir variable into pkgconfig file
692 * Connect language list in GTK greeter to login language
694 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.1
696 * Change licence of libldmgreeter from GPL to LGPL
697 * Write X server and session output to log files
698 * Set PATH, DESKTOP_SESSION, GDMSESSION and USERNAME environment variables
699 * Run sessions through Xsession
700 * Close all X servers on exit
701 * Send SIGHUP to X server when returning to greeter (makes all clients quit)
702 * Change authorization after a session ends so previous session does not get
704 * Make shutdown buttons work in GTK+ greeter
705 * Make user manager configurable
706 * Make GTK+ greeter show username entry if no user list
707 * Hide C and POSIX languages in greeter
708 * Load language and layout from .dmrc file
710 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.0
712 * Make --test-mode which runs as the current user
713 * Support displays acting as XDMCP terminals
714 * Support MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 and XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 authorization
715 * Support XDMCP over IPv6
717 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.4
719 * Support XDMCP logins
721 * Clean up resources on exit
722 * Create gettext instance in WebKit greeter
724 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.3
726 * Wait for signal from X server before starting session
728 * Add keyboard layout API
729 * Add gettext support to the WebKit greeter
731 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.2
733 * Fix installation of D-Bus service file
734 * Allow DISPLAY env variable to be passed to X server so can run Xephyr
735 * Handle no automatic login in webkit theme
737 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.1