1 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.18.0
3 * Small documentation fixes
5 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.17.6
7 * Don't write $DISPLAY into tty line in utmp/btmp.
9 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.17.5
11 * Set XDG_RUNTIME_DIR for ConsoleKit sessions. This is a recent change in
14 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.17.4
16 * Add support for g_autoptr and liblightdm-gobject
17 * Fix dm-tool add-local-seat not working because LightDM is trying to
20 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.17.3
22 * Don't enable the hardware cursor in Unity System Compositor anymore.
23 Unity 8 now correctly provides its own cursor and other shells should too
25 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.17.2
27 * Handle XDMCP Request packet with no addresses.
28 * Don't start LightDM if the XDMCP server is configured with a key that
30 * Add IP addresses to XDMCP log messages.
31 * Refactor XDMCP error handling.
32 * Add more XDMCP tests.
34 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.17.1
36 * Add a backup-logs option that can be used to disable existing logging
37 files having a .old suffix added to them.
38 * Add LC_PAPER, LC_NAME, LC_ADDRESS, LC_TELEPHONE, LC_MEASUREMENT and
39 LC_IDENTIFICATION variables to the list of inherited locale variables.
40 * Implement XDMCP ForwardQuery.
41 * Fix small memory leak in XDMCP logging code.
43 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.17.0
45 * Disable log backups - this interferes with logrotate.
46 * Support using libaudit to generate audit events.
47 * Handle trailing whitespace on boolean values in configuration.
48 * Update example configuration to more correctly match allowed options.
49 * Fix unnecessary X server from being launched when locking seats.
50 * Check the version of the X server we are running so we correctly pass
51 -listen tcp when required.
52 * Allow reading /proc/<PID>/net/dev from within a guest session.
53 * Allow guest sessions to write in /{,var/}run/screen folder.
54 * Update guest-session AppArmor profile to be suitable for openSUSE.
55 * Fix apparmor profiles for running Chromium in guest sessions.
56 * Fix configure failing without Vala installed.
58 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.16.0
60 * Update default configuration better explaining the seat configuration name
61 matching and dropping references to the obsolete [SeatDefaults] section
63 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.15.3
65 * Drop Xorg option -sharevts. It's no longer required for non-seat0 X
66 servers since xorg-server release 1.16.
68 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.15.2
70 * Support Wayland sessions.
71 * Implement autologin-session option.
72 * Generate Vala bindings from GIR instead of manually writing them. This
73 fixes some small bugs in both the Vala and GIR bindings.
74 * Don't remove autotools generated files in distclean.
76 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.15.1
78 * Fix default X server command set to XMir in 1.15.0.
79 * Internally merge the [SeatDefaults] and [Seat:*] sections together. The
80 previous method meant configuration snippets using a mix of old and new
81 naming would not correctly override eachother.
82 * Use IP address of XDMCP requests to contact X server if available.
83 * Add an option for XDMCP and VNC servers to only listen on one address.
84 * Fix configuration file warnings so they go to the log, not stderr.
85 * Warn if deprecated options logind-load-seats or xdg-seat are in
87 * Improve IP addresses in XDMCP log messages.
88 * Fix typo in dm-tool man page.
90 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.15.0
92 * Deprecate [SeatDefaults] in favour of [Seat:*]
93 * Use new Xmir binary when running X under Unity System Compositor
95 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.14.0
97 * Initialize file descriptor handles so we don't attempt to close stdin by
99 * Fix small errors detected by scan-build (clang).
101 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.13.2
103 * Fix pipe file descriptor leak for each greeter session.
104 * Support active session changing via logind.
105 * Don't allow liblightdm-gobject to be disabled. It is required for
106 liblightdm-qt and the tests so it's not worth supporting builds without
108 * Add bash autocompletion support
110 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.13.1
112 * Don't attempt generate D-Bus seat/session removal signals on shutdown.
113 * Add missing method QLightDM::Greeter::cancelAutologin
115 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.13.0
117 * Fix crash when having configuration keys defined in multiple places
118 * Fix pipe file descriptor leak for each session login / authentication
119 * Use correct syntax for DesktopNames key in session files
120 * Match seat configuration with globbing
121 * Allow user switching in multi-seat until bug stopping greeter showing on
123 * Disable log message when AccountsService users change
124 * Update AppArmor scripts, requires AppArmor 2.9
125 * Update tests to run better on servers
127 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.12.0
129 * Fix assumption that the display server is X when running scripts.
130 * Don't access .dmrc files until information from these files is required.
132 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.9
134 * Don't check the logind CanGraphical seat property unless
135 login-check-graphical option is set to true. There are too many cases of
136 drivers that don't set the appropriate flags for this feature to work.
137 * Make socket writing code used between greeter and daemon more robust to
139 * Fix small memory leaks.
140 * Improve logging messages.
143 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.8
145 * Rework logind code that gets session ID. The previous method was racy
146 and a change in lightdm 1.11.7 led to a lockup when this race occurred.
147 * Handle CanGraphical property on logind seats
149 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.7
151 * Use logind to provide the list of seats to use. Deprecate the old method
152 of manually defining seats.
153 * Add --show-config option that shows combined configuration.
154 * Drop the surfaceflinger seat type. This was a temporary solution while
155 Ubuntu Phone was migrating to Mir.
157 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.6
159 * Add a seat option 'allow-user-switching' that can disable all user
160 switching for that seat
161 * Add a new session type 'mir-container' that allows the session to run
162 inside a custom system compositor
163 * Only seat0 takes VT from Plymouth
164 * Removed unused GAsyncResultIface.is_tagged as this attribute was not
165 available in earlier versions of Glib I/O.
166 * Abort autogen if yelp-tools not installed
167 * Return correct errors for D-Bus calls
169 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.5
171 * Make PAM services configurable
173 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.4
175 * Do timed autologin each time you are returned to the greeter
176 * Fix tests failing with Qt 5.3 due to it checking getuid/geteuid which we are faking
177 * dm-tool: Warn if trying to switch to user without username
179 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.3
181 * Fix Mir sessions broken with unity-system-compositor 0.3.
182 * Add back Vala bindings for LightDM.Greeter.connect_sync - just mark as
184 * Put unity-system-compositor's mir_socket under /run rather than /tmp.
185 * Fix building with clang (3.5) and -Werror.
186 * Correct section name in default users.conf file.
188 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.2
190 * Add liblightdm method to get user UID
191 * DBus-activate logind
192 * Check for libgcrypt at configure time
194 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.1
196 * Allow greeters to remain runing to reduce startup time when switching to a
198 * Add asynchronous methods to liblightdm
200 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.0
202 * When switching to an existing session refresh PAM credentials and end
203 session cleanly so no resources leak.
204 * Support new standard DesktopNames field in session files
205 * Set XDG_SESSION_TYPE and XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP as used by systemd
206 * Emit DBus PropertiesChanged when Sessions/Seats properties change. Also
207 add SessionAdded/SessionRemoved signals to Seat interface
209 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.10.0
211 * Fix return value for Vala bindings to Greeter.start_session_sync
212 * Fix logging when failing to find session
214 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.15
216 * Update the lightdm AppArmor abstraction to allow the guest session to
217 start when AppArmor is mediating signals and ptrace and fix a minor, but
218 noisy, denial when applications attempt to read /proc/<PID>/stat.
220 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.14
222 * Pass --enable-hardware-greeter to unity-system-compositor for Mir sessions
225 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.13
227 * Handle not getting an X connection when attempting to get X layouts.
228 * Read config data from both XDG_DATA_DIRS and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS.
230 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.12
232 * Ensure X authority is written before X server is started
233 * Activate after unlocking a logind session
235 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.11
237 * Don't use g_hash_table_get_keys_as_array, it's a glib 2.40 feature
239 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.10
241 * Honour session type requested by greeter for guest sessions
242 * Log to wtmp and btmp.
243 * Implement guest-session config option
245 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.9
247 * Handle signals being received in child processes instead of treating them
248 like they are received in the daemon.
249 * Set utmp ut_line to the display name (i.e. :0) to match what other
250 programs expect (e.g. 'w').
251 * Fix lightdm_greeter_ensure_shared_data_dir_sync returning the wrong value.
252 * Fix shared data tests so you can run test suite without root again.
253 * Be extra careful not to call any non thread safe function after a fork.
254 * Fix some small memory leaks detected by valgrind.
255 * Fix process shutdown code to stop generating confusing warnings
256 * Fix more double removal of source IDs.
259 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.8
261 * Add support for shared user data directories between the greeter and user sessions.
262 * Refactor LightDMUser and User classes to use the same code internally.
264 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.7
266 * Correctly invoke PAM to change authentication token.
267 * Make xdg-seat a core property of a seat and always pass it to X servers.
268 * Qt bindings: properly hand over prompt and message type.
269 * Add warning flags where they are missing and fix the resulting warnings.
271 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.6
273 * Support Mir sessions in xlocal seats by starting a unity system compositor
275 * Add --screen and --fullscreen options to "dm-tool add-nested-seat"
276 * Don't try to compile liblightdm-qt if liblightdm-gobject will not be
278 * Stop greeters warning if sessions directories not present or lightdm.conf
279 doesn't exist - this is valid.
280 * Fix log name for Mir display servers
281 * Fix double removal of source IDs
283 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.5
285 * In the unity seat, if we don't have proper VT support, fake VT 0 instead
286 of a real VT number. This matches what logind expects.
288 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.4
290 * Fix issue where VTs are double used when switching sessions.
291 * Remove lightdm-set-defaults and gdmflexiserver.
292 * Add new ability to specify a list of seat types to try, rather than just
294 * Allow Mir sessions in the surfaceflinger seat.
295 * Rename the guest session wrapper to have a simpler name.
296 * Make sure sessions are associated with the display server before starting
298 * Add a dm-tool man page.
300 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.3
302 * Don't pass system user accounts from AccountsService to greeters.
303 * Fix crash if switching to greeter and it isn't installed.
305 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.2
307 * Implement missing guest-wrapper functionality and enable it for Ubuntu.
308 * Update AppArmor scripts to work in Ubuntu 13.10.
310 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.1
312 * Correctly set $XDG_SESSION_CLASS for greeters. This was regressed in 1.7.5
313 for ConsoleKit and was never passed to logind. logind/ConsoleKit treat
314 greeter sessions without this set as user sessions. This causes greeters
315 to show the lightdm user able to be logged in with.
316 * Set $USER when running the session-setup-script. This is a regression from
318 * Fix notification of sessions being logged out. This is a regression from
319 1.7.5 and caused greeters to show sessions logged in after they had been
321 * Refactor liblightdm user scanning to be simpler and more reliable. This
322 fixes bugs where some properties wouldn't be updated when they changed in
324 * Add support for a "display-stopped-script" field in lightdm.conf. The
325 "display-stopped-script" field allows us to run a script right after
326 stopping the display server.
327 * Allow dm-tool to run outside of a session if it doesn't need to be.
328 * Set $MIR_SERVER_NAME to assign a name to launched sessions. Also use a
329 "greeter-" prefix for greeter sessions for the benefit of
330 unity-system-compositor.
332 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.0
334 * Fix crash when starting with existing X servers. This was introduced in
335 rev 1651 (lightdm 1.7.0).
336 * Fix crash where Process objects are accessed after unref
338 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.8.0
340 * Add regression test for corrupt X authority files.
342 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.18
344 * Set session environment variables for guest sessions (1.7 regression).
345 * Don't fail writing X authority if reading it had an error.
346 * Update environment variables that we pass to Mir.
348 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.17
350 * surfaceflinger: Set XDG_VTNR=0 if VTs are not available
351 * Allow compiling of liblightdm-qt without liblightdm-gobject
352 * Add missing documentation for xremote seat options.
354 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.16
356 * Fix ConsoleKit support broken in 1.7.5
358 * Add support for running Surfaceflinger sessions
360 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.15
362 * Set XDG_VTNR=1 as a fallback if using SeatUnity without a functioning
363 compositor or working VT switching, so that logind will recognize the VT
366 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.14
368 * Correctly set permissions on Xauthority file.
370 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.13
372 * Correctly set $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP for non-autologin sessions
373 * Fix overallocation of array for strings from greeter.
374 * Fix truncation writing card32 in XDMCP server.
376 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.12
378 * Add xdg-seat config setting
379 * Notify Unity System Compositor of the session being authenticated
381 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.11
383 * Fix crash when greeter quits due to read watch not being removed
384 * Correctly setup Unity System Compositor environment
385 * Improve log messages
387 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.10
389 * Fix session locking broken in 1.7.5
390 * Load lightdm.conf after lightdm.conf.d/*.conf
391 * Also support loading config from /usr/share
392 * When switching sessions show a greeter if authentication required
393 * Set $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP if specified in the xsession file
394 * Change logging prefixes to make it easier to troubleshoot multiseat setups
395 * Bring Ubuntu packaging in-tree
397 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.9
399 * Correctly set XDG_VTNR for unity sessions that are not autologin.
401 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.8
403 * Add support for Mir sessions and greeters.
404 * Set XDG_VTNR for unity sessions.
405 * Fix desktop-session-start upstart signal not being emitted since 1.7.5.
406 * Fix greeter log broken in 1.7.5.
408 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.7
410 * Fix uninitialized pointer introduced in 1.7.3
411 * Enable compile warnings and fix code generating warnings
413 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.6
415 * Restore greeter hints that were regressed in 1.7.5.
416 * Don't run greeters through session wrapper - regression in 1.7.5
418 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.5
420 * Quit Plymouth correctly when using the unity seat type
421 * Release the VT when the system compositor fails to start
422 * Load sessions and greeters from /usr/share/lightdm/sessions and
423 /usr/share/lightdm/greeters. The existing directories are checked
424 if the sessions are not in these directories.
425 * Refactor the Display class so that it merges with the Seat class
426 * Support running the greeter and session in different display servers
427 instead of re-using the same one during a login.
428 * Add more regression tests
429 * Documentation fixes
431 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.4
433 * Set XDG_SEAT and XDG_VTNR environment variables.
434 * Add initial support for Unity (i.e. Mir based) seats.
435 * Add a greeter wrapper option.
437 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.3
439 * Load configuration from /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d.
440 * Fix compile warnings
441 * Fix tests not running from install directory inside checkout.
443 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.2
445 * Fix incorrectly distributed guest-session apparmor data
447 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.1
449 * Fix .pc file for liblightdm-qt5-3
450 * Add a new option "autologin-in-background" which lets an autologin happen
451 in a second display while still showing the greeter.
452 * Stop if fail to create default seat
453 * Add option to set seat type in lightdm-set-defaults
454 * Stop using g_file_set_contents - it can leave intermediate files around
455 * Make tests work without installing them
458 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.0
460 * Use logind instead of ConsoleKit if it is available
461 * Use Q_SLOTS and Q_SIGNALS instead of slots and signals.
462 * Ignore stale X server locks
463 * Pass through system locale or set locale from AccountsService/.dmrc
464 * Fix bug where seat failure before D-Bus acquired would not stop daemon
466 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.6.0
468 * Allow VNC command to be specified in lightdm.conf
469 * Register enums with QObject meta type system.
471 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.3
473 * Fix build with gobject-introspection 1.35.9
474 * Fix authentication cancel regression caused in 1.5.2
476 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.2
478 * Fix stale X server being left behind when using LockSession D-Bus API
479 * Adjust AppArmor profile to also work with logind
480 * Don't use GIO to access X authority files - it uses GVFS which is
481 unnecessary overhead/complexity
482 * Handle over/underflows when reading from greeter
483 * Improve warning message when XDMCP packet has length mismatch
484 * Only report test command line if it fails
485 * Add more regression tests
487 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.1
489 * QLightDM: Add Qt5 version of the library: liblightdm-qt5-2
490 * QLightDM: Add some missing role names in UsersModel
491 * QLightDM: Add a backgroundPath role to UsersModel
492 * QLightDM: Fix potential crash in QLightDM::UsersModel closedown.
493 * Improve guest session apparmor
494 * Run each test in its own /tmp dir so they can't interfere with eachother
495 * Fix script hooks no longer working with latest glib
496 * Fix display clean up code
498 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.0
500 * Add man page for lightdm-set-defaults
501 * Use xzip for distribution, don't distribute old metadata
502 * Correctly check if display is active when session quits
503 * Relicense liblightdm to LGPL-2/LGPL-3 so GPL-2 code can link against it
504 * Selectively lock memory rather than calling mlockall for main daemon
506 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.4.1
508 * Fix autologin PAM configuration
510 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.4.0
512 * Correctly implement and test autologin timeouts
513 * Add greeter-show-remote-login hint
514 * Correctly annotate enums in vapi file
515 * QLightDM: Add default constructor to Qt power interface
516 * QLightDM: Expose image path in UserModel
517 * QLightDM: Add parameter to session model to show either local or remote
519 * Fix race conditions in tests
521 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.3
523 * Add a new remote session type. These sessions create a temporary local
524 account and authenticate against a remote server. The session is an
525 application that accesses that remote session (e.g. VNC, RDP etc)
526 * Support multiple simultaneous PAM prompts
527 * Set utmp ut_host field to the X display address
528 * Correctly reap unused authentication sessions
530 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.2
532 * Handle clearenv() not being defined
533 * Fix compilation with GCC 4.7
534 * Expose remaining properties in QLightDM::Greeter
535 * Fix utmp records being written before child process created
537 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.1
539 * Fix wrapper path in AppArmor profile (broken since 1.1.1)
540 * Add show-manual-login and allow-guest options to lightdm-set-defaults
541 * Don't set PAM_XDISPLAY or PAM_XAUTHDATA if not supported
542 * Add lock-memory option, enabled by default, to prevent paging memory
544 * Write utmp records for sessions
545 * Install PAM configuration
546 * Run greeters inside the "lightdm-greeter" PAM service
547 * Handle setresgid and setresuid not being available
548 * Use xsession directory from lightdm.conf in liblightdm
550 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.2.0
552 * Backup .xsession-errors on login
553 * Handle failures in pam_setcred
554 * Open log files in append mode
555 * Add extra checks in liblightdm so that it doesn't send invalid messages
557 * Fix gdmflexiserver not being added to the path (broken since 1.1.4)
558 * Fix PAM conversations after authentication from locking up sessions
559 * Fix PAM informational messages locking up autologin
560 * Change XDMCP manage timeout from 10ms to 126s (maximum specified in the
563 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.9
565 * Add --show-users/--hide-users to lightdm-set-defaults
566 * Call initgroups before pam_setcred - this allows pam_setcred to change
567 group membership correctly
569 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.8
571 * Handle PAM interactions that have more than one message in one callback
573 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.7
575 * Add a seat option greeter-allow-guest which controls if the greeter should
576 provide an option to access the guest account.
577 * Add a seat option greeter-show-manual-login which hints to a greeter if it
578 should show a manual username entry if a user list is already present.
580 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.6
582 * Fix session wrapper working the same as it did in 1.1.3
584 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.5
586 * Stop file descriptors leaking into the session processes
588 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.4
590 * Change session directory once user permissions are set so it works
591 on NFS filesystems that don't allow root to access files.
592 * Restructure session code so the PAM authentication is run in its
594 * Set PAM_XDISPLAY and PAM_XAUTHDATA pam items
595 * Don't send session stdout to .xsession-errors
596 * Fix Qt bindings crash when removing a user
598 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.3
600 * Actually return the system default keyboard layout, not just 'us'
601 * Add keyboard layout variants to list of keyboard layouts
602 * Check accountsservice as well as .dmrc for users' layouts
603 * Add lightdm_user_get_layouts() to query the configured list of layouts
605 * Add Lock D-Bus method that locks the seat and provides a hint to the
606 greeter to be in lock mode.
607 * Automatically lock sessions when switching away from them
608 * Add a has-messages property to liblightdm
609 * Add regression tests for PAM modules changing usernames
610 * Don't use g_key_file_unref, it requires glib 2.32
612 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.2
614 * Add regression tests for getting the user language and layout
615 * Stop accidentally distributing libsystem
616 * Fix introspection bindings not containing any methods
617 * lightdm-set-defaults can now set the autologin user
618 * Add Python greeter regression tests (representative of all introspection
620 * Wait for the VT to become active when switching to avoid a suspected
621 race condition somewhere between LightDM, X, ConsoleKit and the kernel.
622 * Stop lightdm_greeter_start_session_sync() blocking on success.
624 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.1
626 * Add a --disable-tests option
627 * Add note to AUTHORS file where to find author list
628 * Update build system to find moc/uic
629 * Fix non-distributed tests/src/lightdm-session
630 * Fix X sessions with arguments in Exec not working
631 * Use previous session for automatic login or if greeter does not request
633 * Set default resolution of VNC to 1024x768, add settings for width, height,
634 depth into lightdm.conf.
635 * AppArmor profile: Fix broken gnome-keyring and dbus/gwibber, and quiesce
636 annoying kernel audit messages for privileges that we definitively do not
638 * Set LOGNAME environment variable
639 * Don't set USERNAME environment variable - this is not specified in POSIX,
640 please report if this causes any major problems.
641 * Drop privileges when reading ~/.dmrc
642 * Move the GTK+ and Qt greeters into their own projects
643 * Fix crash when quitting with newer GLib
644 * Fix crash calling lightdm_get_layout
645 * Support for reading users' backgrounds from Accounts Service
646 * Fix --debug working with new glib
647 * Support PAM requesting a change of password
648 * Update build system to work with automake 1.11.2
649 * Run tests inside their own system D-Bus, simulating ConsoleKit and
651 * Add regression test for users that have their home directory created after
653 * Move lightdm-guest-session from libexec to pkglibexec directory
655 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.0
657 * Remove GetSeatForCookie and GetSessionForCookie D-Bus methods
658 * Switching to a user without a password bypasses the greeter
659 * Use LD_PRELOAD to intercept system calls for testing
660 * Removed the --passwd-file option as not required for testing anymore
661 * Rename test-xserver to X and remove --xserver-command option
662 * Make a test session wrapper and remove --session-wrapper option
663 * Remove unused --user-session, --greeter-session, --minimum-vt,
664 --minimum-display-number options
665 * Use 'default' as the default greeter (make a symlink)
666 * GTK greeter now initializes i18n
667 * GTK greeter now remembers last user
668 * Start authentication for automtically selected user in GTK greeter
669 * Don't resize GTK greeter on each click
670 * Start authentication when scrolling through GTK greeter entries
671 * Link liblightdm-qt against QtGui
672 * Fix liblightdm-qt crashing when face images are installed
673 * Set correct permissions on session log files
674 * Introduce a lightdm-guest-session-wrapper session command which MAC
675 systems like AppArmor and SELinux can use for attaching a restrictive
676 policy to guest sessions.
677 * Provide an AppArmor profile for guest session lockdown.
678 * Fix daemon from blocking if Accounts Service does not exist
679 * Fix greeter log file not being written
680 * Don't set LANG environment variable if using Accounts Service.
681 * Fix gdmflexiserver not working due to it not being in PATH
682 * Don't authenticate the greeter user
683 * Allow greeters to be disabled in configure flags
684 * Fix over allocation of read buffer in greeter protocol
685 * Make sure objects are cleaned up on exit
686 * Fix minor memory leaks
687 * Fix reference counting issue in ConsoleKit code
688 * Fix --enable-gtk-greeter=yes not working
690 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.0.0
692 * Explicitly grab keyboard focus in GTK greeter
693 * Fix removed power and a11y menu items in GTK greeter
694 * Put system binary directory into path when running in test mode
695 * Call pam_getenvlist after pam_setcred
697 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.8
699 * GetSeatForCookie and GetSessionForCookie are now deprecated. They
700 remain for now but use the XDG_SEAT_PATH and XDG_SESSION_PATH
701 environment variables instead.
702 * Change log filenames to be unique across different display types.
703 * Fix up script hooks, add regression tests for them
704 * Complete removal of X code from the core of LightDM, so it can better
705 support various display types
706 * Add ability to set the language of a user from the greeter
707 * Set LANG variable based on the user language
708 * Add language selector into GTK greeter (disabled by default)
709 * Allow TCP/IP connections if xserver-allow-tcp is true
710 * Allow lightdm --version to be run as non-root
711 * Automatically respond to PAM messages without prompts
712 * Create 'AddLocalXSeat' D-Bus method, and require root to use 'AddSeat'
713 * Fix multi-seat configuration picking the same display number
714 * Use correct D-Bus and power interface in liblightdm-qt
715 * Run pam_setcred inside the session process so pam_group works
716 * Make sure one session is always selected in the GTK greeter
718 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.7
720 * Set PAM_TTY to the display name, not the tty device
722 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.6
724 * Only unlock displays if switched to from greeter
725 * Make log file not system readable
726 * Write ~/.Xauthority inside the session process so it cannot be hijacked
727 * Set PAM_TTY and PAM_XDISPLAY when opening PAM session
728 * Add VNC server support
729 * Do not write ~/.dmrc and ~/.Xauthority as root. [CVE-2011-3349]
731 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.5
733 * Use accounts service in the daemon if it is available
734 * Correctly load seat type in multi seat configuration
735 * Add display-setup, session-setup and session-cleanup scripting hooks
736 * Fix cancel button in GTK greeter
737 * Fix line through GTK greeter menu items
738 * Exit daemon if a seat fails which has exit-on-failure set to true
739 * Add HasGuestAccount property to seat D-Bus interface
740 * Fix XDMCP authorization
743 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.4
745 * lightdm-set-defaults enables tweaking the default session and chosen
746 greeter for lightdm. This is useful for derivatives waiting to not ship
747 the whole configuration file of lightdm
748 * Fix crash in GTK+ greeter when a user is added
749 * Move xsessions-directory and xgreeters-directory from [SeatDefaults] to
750 [LightDM]. This is a configuration break, but making it on the assumption
751 that these settings are not likely to have been overridden.
752 * Fix fallback from org.freedesktop.Accounts to passwd format
753 * Fix duplicate user entries being shown when using passwd file
754 * Add AddSeat D-Bus method for adding dynamic seats
755 * Added a dm-tool program that allows user switching and adding seats
756 * Allow remote X servers, e.g. launched using dm-tool add-nested-seat
757 * Fix bug where sessions were started when the greeter quit and the user
758 hadn't been authorized.
759 * Fix bug where sessions used the seat bus name
760 * Don't allow autologin-username to be set to empty
761 * Fix bug where PAM session was not opened before writing to home directory
762 * Fix crash when failing to write X authority
764 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.3
766 * Unlock ConsoleKit sessions when switching to them
767 * Add a gdmflexiserver binary that provides backwards compatibility with
769 * Set XDG_SEAT_PATH and XDG_SESSION_PATH environment variables for sessions.
770 * Always set XAUTHORITY environment variable so sudo keeps accessing the
772 * Connect up lightdm_user_get_logged_in in liblightdm-gobject
773 * Ignore sessions that fail TryExec or are hidden
774 * Add missing home_directory User property missing in Vala bindings
776 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.2
778 * Fix annotation and Vala bindings for getting the UserList singleton
779 * Fix GTK+ greeter error label not being shown
780 * Don't set SIGQUIT to ignore in child processes
781 * Reworked the PAM code as ecryptfs users weren't able to log in. They
782 can now but not sure what changed to fix that!?
784 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.1
786 * Fix up translation build system
787 * Add a --with-greeter-user configure option
788 * Fix greeter-user configuration not being used
789 * Abort greeter if attempted to be run as root and greeter-user set
790 * Fix setting session in GTK+ greeter
792 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.0
794 * Fix invalid XAUTHORITY variable being set for second X server.
795 * Fix bug where switching users created X servers without VTs
796 * Release a VT when the X server on it stops
797 * Greeters are now just standard X sessions that are stored in
798 /usr/share/xgreeters.
799 * Binaries now installed in /usr/sbin
800 * Drop most of the configure options, they aren't necessary
802 - Major reorginisation of configuration to make it easier to configure and
803 understand. Users should set [SeatDefaults] section with settings for
804 all seats, and can override each setting in a per seat configuration.
805 - Default seats are now specified using a [Seat:<name>] section. If no seats
806 are specified then one is started. This can be overridden by setting
807 start-default-seat=false in [LightDM].
808 - Support setting autologin user to guest account
809 - Split the user accounts configuration into /etc/lightdm/users.conf so the
810 main config can be private.
811 - The default user session is now "default". Distributions should put a
812 symlink to their chosen default or set one in lightdm.conf.
813 - XDMCP keys now stored in keys.conf
814 * liblightdm API changes:
815 - Both libraries are now version 1 and have API and ABI guarantees.
816 - Face images are now local paths not URIs
817 - liblightdm-gobject now uses lightdm_ prefix instead of ldm_
818 - Non-greeter functions are now moved out of the Greeter class
819 - connect_to_server() is now called connect_sync and blocks until
821 - start_session() is now called start_session_sync and blocks until
822 completion. The quit signal is removed, and the greeter should quit if
823 this method returns TRUE.
824 - login() is now called authenticate()
825 - Greeters now have hints instead of configuration (greeters should load their
826 own configuration from /etc/lightdm if they need it).
827 - liblightdm-gobject uses AccountsService if it is available
828 - Added regression tests for liblightdm-qt
830 - Expose Seats and Sessions on org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
831 - Add a CanSwitch property
832 - Rename ShowGreeter() to SwitchToGreeter()
834 - Drop "example" from the name of the GTK+ and Qt greeters and make them
835 official default greeters.
836 - Use GTK3 for GTK+ greeter.
837 - Removed the Vala and Python GTK+ greeters, they weren't being well
840 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.4
842 * Fix failure to accept XDMCP connections due to invalid assert.
843 * Allow minimum-display-number to be set in lightdm.conf and on the command
845 * Session X authority now written to ~/.Xauthority by default. It can be
846 configured to run from the system location by setting
847 user-authority-in-system-dir=true in lightdm.conf.
848 * When using system authority the authority can be updated by the user.
849 * Written X authority files now checks hostname and display number.
850 * Enironment is no longer passed through to X servers and sessions, this is
851 no longer required now PAM works correctly.
852 * liblightdm API changes:
853 - Drop ldm_greeter_get_is_first() - it was added for testing and doesn't
855 * Fix more errors where authentication messages from previous sessions could
856 be confused with new sessions.
857 * Added XDMCP regression tests.
859 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.3
861 * Don't replace Plymouth if it isn't running on a valid VT
862 * Allow a null username to log in with - the system will prompt for a
864 * liblightdm API changes:
865 - Rename ldm_greeter_provide_secret to ldm_greeter_respond - responses
867 - show-prompt signal now has a PromptType field
868 - show-message signal now has a MessageType field and takes over
869 behaviour of show-error signal
870 * Fix error where an authentication failure from a previous session could
871 be interpreted as a failure in the current session.
872 * Simplify Vala bindings and add missing methods
874 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.2
876 * Fix errors communicating with PAM
877 * Fix interaction with Plytmouth.
878 * Removes the vt option in lightdm.conf, this is no longer required
879 and the active is used for the first display if Plymouth is
880 detected. A new option minimum-vt is added to select the first
881 VT to be used for other displays.
882 * On login switch to an existing session if already logged in with that
884 * Correctly connect up D-Bus interface for user switching
886 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.1
888 * Fix linking issue with -z,defs
889 * Added guest account support
890 * Restart X server if it crashes during a session
891 * Don't set language environment variables, use the daemon values
892 (system default) and leave it to ~/.profile for users to set these
893 * Change greeter library API, starting a session no longer has a language
895 * Fix greeter crash when user accounts change
897 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.0
899 * Fix crash when child processes quit
900 * Fix crash when catching signals
901 * Fix crash when session quits after X server
902 * Add internal checking for NULL object access
903 * Correctly handle signals from external programs (Thanks to Jason Conti)
904 * liblightdm API changes:
905 - ldm_greeter_start_authentication becomes ldm_greeter_login
906 - The existing ldm_greeter_login is now ldm_greeter_start_session
907 and the username parameter is not required.
908 - Drop ldm_greeter_get_default_layout (X controls the layout)
909 * Configuration changes:
910 - Use /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf instead of /etc/lightdm.conf
911 - The "displays" item is now called "seats". LightDM will fallback to
912 "displays" if "seats" is not defined, but this is deprecated and will
913 be removed by version 1.0.
914 - Make X server configuration a separate section and now has new options
915 * Automatic login users now use PAM session lightdm-autologin
916 * Use org.freedesktop.DisplayManager instead of
917 org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager for D-Bus name
918 * Add regression tests
919 * Allow many more options to be set from the command line
921 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.7
923 * Fix autologin broken in 0.3.3
925 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.6
927 * Disable Plymouth when starting
928 * Allow display vt setting to be set to "active" to start on active VT
929 * Fix login in Qt example greeter
930 * Fix typo for High Contrast menu item (GTK example greeter)
932 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.5
934 * Set working directory when logging in
935 * Massive improvements to Qt greeter
936 * Fix XDMCP authentication/authorization errors
937 * Have the daemon open a connection to a local X server
938 * Tidy up some debugging messages
940 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.4
942 * Updates to liblightdm-qt
943 * Fix --with-cache-dir not working
944 * Set greeterdir in .pc files to point to where greeter engines should be
947 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.3
949 * Don't run in test-mode if Xephyr cannot be found
950 * Fix daemon using 100% CPU after greeter quits
951 * Fix crash when users don't have GECOS data
952 * Greeters can now detect user add/remove events
953 * Fix ConsoleKit support broken with switch to GDBus
954 * Correctly clean up X processes on exit
955 * Wait for greeter to quit before running user session (fixes problem with
958 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.2
960 * Distribute GTK greeter .ui file
962 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.1
964 * Add greeter login_with_defaults method
965 * Add example to the name of all the greeters
966 * Set the configuration for the default display to use VT 7
967 * Fix the vt setting for displays, it was incorrectly named tty
968 * Fix crash when load-users is false in UserManager
969 * Fix up name of .vapi file so it can be used directly from valac
970 * Tidy up Qt library and greeter
971 * Move menubar in greeters to top of screen
972 * Fix console kit get_can_*() methods
973 * Use GtkBuilder for example GTK greeter
975 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.0
977 * Correctly pass environment variables through to the session
978 * Allow starting virtual terminal to be configured
979 * Replace D-Bus greeter communication with a private pipe
980 * Use GDBus instead of dbus-glib
981 * Use the engine process name instead of a hardcoded value in theme files
982 * Rename ldm_greeter_connect to ldm_greeter_connect_to_server so it doesn't
983 clash with GObject method name
984 * Rename ldm-gtk-greeter to lightdm-gtk-greeter
985 * Rename gnome theme to example-gtk-gnome
986 * Add more annotations to liblightdm-gobject
987 * Add an example PyGObject, Vala and QT greeter
988 * Generate metadata for QT libraries
989 * Move Webkit greeter into separate module
991 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.3
993 * Set correct linking library names in pkg-config files
994 * Handle session executables that take arguments
996 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.2
998 * Make default themedir work when --prefix is not passed to configure
999 * Look for face images in ~/.face and ~/.face.icon
1000 * Put .vapi file in unversioned vala directory
1001 * Fix compiling without QT
1002 * Choose the VT to open the display on
1003 * Set correct group memberships for sessions (Yves-Alexis Perez)
1004 * Set permissions on xauthority file so it can only be read by the owning
1005 user (Yves-Alexis Perez)
1006 * Set correct permissions on ~/.dmrc (Yves-Alexis Perez)
1007 * Add --enable-liblightdm-gobject, --enable-liblightdm-qt configure option
1008 * Set environment variables from PAM (Yves-Alexis Perez)
1010 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.1
1012 * Use "lightdm" as default PAM service and make it configurable
1013 * Rename libldmgreeter to libldmgreeter-gobject
1014 * Add libldmgreeter-qt (David Edmundson)
1015 * Fix gobject-introspection build
1016 * Renamed libldmgreeter to liblightdm
1017 * Install a .vapi file
1019 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.0
1021 * Make default user configuration per-display
1022 * Only automatically login the first time
1023 * Fix WebKit theme loading and automatic login
1024 * Do cross fade for sessions that support it
1025 (set X-LightDM-Supports-Transitions=true in their xsession file)
1026 * Load user settings from ~/.dmrc
1027 * Add configuration for default language/layout
1028 * Change language/layout/session when user selected in GTK+ greeter
1029 * Set default keyboard layout on first login
1030 * Don't run all sessions throught /etc/X11/XSession - make the session
1031 wrapper optional and configurable.
1032 * Make pkgconfig file require libxklavier
1033 * Only compile greeters if have dependencies
1034 * Include ck-connector code to reduce library dependencies
1035 * Add introspection.m4 to the source tree
1036 * Support using no greeter user in lightdm.conf
1037 * Flush writes to main log file
1038 * Allow non-privilidged user to write greeter log file in /var
1039 * Fix bugs stopping running greeter as priviledged user (i.e. root)
1040 * Don't default to running greeters with the GDM user - it may not exist!
1042 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.2
1045 * Make user switcher API work
1046 * Add a AddDisplay D-Bus method to start new displays
1047 * Feed signals to GLib main loop via a pipe
1048 * Add an upstart script
1049 * Make theme files more similar to existing themes
1050 * Change dbus namespace from org.freedesktop.LightDisplayManager to
1051 org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager
1052 * Write debug log to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log instead of stdout. Use
1053 --debug for the previous behaviour
1054 * Add exec_prefix into libldmgreeter.pc
1055 * Change versioned include and pkgconfig files from 1 to 0
1056 * Add themedir variable into pkgconfig file
1057 * Connect language list in GTK greeter to login language
1059 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.1
1061 * Change licence of libldmgreeter from GPL to LGPL
1062 * Write X server and session output to log files
1063 * Set PATH, DESKTOP_SESSION, GDMSESSION and USERNAME environment variables
1064 * Run sessions through Xsession
1065 * Close all X servers on exit
1066 * Send SIGHUP to X server when returning to greeter (makes all clients quit)
1067 * Change authorization after a session ends so previous session does not get
1069 * Make shutdown buttons work in GTK+ greeter
1070 * Make user manager configurable
1071 * Make GTK+ greeter show username entry if no user list
1072 * Hide C and POSIX languages in greeter
1073 * Load language and layout from .dmrc file
1075 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.0
1077 * Make --test-mode which runs as the current user
1078 * Support displays acting as XDMCP terminals
1079 * Support MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 and XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 authorization
1080 * Support XDMCP over IPv6
1082 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.4
1084 * Support XDMCP logins
1085 * Support multi-head
1086 * Clean up resources on exit
1087 * Create gettext instance in WebKit greeter
1089 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.3
1091 * Wait for signal from X server before starting session
1093 * Add keyboard layout API
1094 * Add gettext support to the WebKit greeter
1096 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.2
1098 * Fix installation of D-Bus service file
1099 * Allow DISPLAY env variable to be passed to X server so can run Xephyr
1100 * Handle no automatic login in webkit theme
1102 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.1