1 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.4
3 * lightdm-set-defaults enables tweaking the default session and chosen
4 greeter for lightdm. This is useful for derivatives waiting to not ship
5 the whole configuration file of lightdm
7 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.3
9 * Unlock ConsoleKit sessions when switching to them
10 * Add a gdmflexiserver binary that provides backwards compatibility with
12 * Set XDG_SEAT_PATH and XDG_SESSION_PATH environment variables for sessions.
13 * Always set XAUTHORITY environment variable so sudo keeps accessing the
15 * Connect up lightdm_user_get_logged_in in liblightdm-gobject
16 * Ignore sessions that fail TryExec or are hidden
17 * Add missing home_directory User property missing in Vala bindings
19 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.2
21 * Fix annotation and Vala bindings for getting the UserList singleton
22 * Fix GTK+ greeter error label not being shown
23 * Don't set SIGQUIT to ignore in child processes
24 * Reworked the PAM code as ecryptfs users weren't able to log in. They
25 can now but not sure what changed to fix that!?
27 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.1
29 * Fix up translation build system
30 * Add a --with-greeter-user configure option
31 * Fix greeter-user configuration not being used
32 * Abort greeter if attempted to be run as root and greeter-user set
33 * Fix setting session in GTK+ greeter
35 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.0
37 * Fix invalid XAUTHORITY variable being set for second X server.
38 * Fix bug where switching users created X servers without VTs
39 * Release a VT when the X server on it stops
40 * Greeters are now just standard X sessions that are stored in
42 * Binaries now installed in /usr/sbin
43 * Drop most of the configure options, they aren't necessary
45 - Major reorginisation of configuration to make it easier to configure and
46 understand. Users should set [SeatDefaults] section with settings for
47 all seats, and can override each setting in a per seat configuration.
48 - Default seats are now specified using a [Seat:<name>] section. If no seats
49 are specified then one is started. This can be overridden by setting
50 start-default-seat=false in [LightDM].
51 - Support setting autologin user to guest account
52 - Split the user accounts configuration into /etc/lightdm/users.conf so the
53 main config can be private.
54 - The default user session is now "default". Distributions should put a
55 symlink to their chosen default or set one in lightdm.conf.
56 - XDMCP keys now stored in keys.conf
57 * liblightdm API changes:
58 - Both libraries are now version 1 and have API and ABI guarantees.
59 - Face images are now local paths not URIs
60 - liblightdm-gobject now uses lightdm_ prefix instead of ldm_
61 - Non-greeter functions are now moved out of the Greeter class
62 - connect_to_server() is now called connect_sync and blocks until
64 - start_session() is now called start_session_sync and blocks until
65 completion. The quit signal is removed, and the greeter should quit if
66 this method returns TRUE.
67 - login() is now called authenticate()
68 - Greeters now have hints instead of configuration (greeters should load their
69 own configuration from /etc/lightdm if they need it).
70 - liblightdm-gobject uses AccountsService if it is available
71 - Added regression tests for liblightdm-qt
73 - Expose Seats and Sessions on org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
74 - Add a CanSwitch property
75 - Rename ShowGreeter() to SwitchToGreeter()
77 - Drop "example" from the name of the GTK+ and Qt greeters and make them
78 official default greeters.
79 - Use GTK3 for GTK+ greeter.
80 - Removed the Vala and Python GTK+ greeters, they weren't being well
83 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.4
85 * Fix failure to accept XDMCP connections due to invalid assert.
86 * Allow minimum-display-number to be set in lightdm.conf and on the command
88 * Session X authority now written to ~/.Xauthority by default. It can be
89 configured to run from the system location by setting
90 user-authority-in-system-dir=true in lightdm.conf.
91 * When using system authority the authority can be updated by the user.
92 * Written X authority files now checks hostname and display number.
93 * Enironment is no longer passed through to X servers and sessions, this is
94 no longer required now PAM works correctly.
95 * liblightdm API changes:
96 - Drop ldm_greeter_get_is_first() - it was added for testing and doesn't
98 * Fix more errors where authentication messages from previous sessions could
99 be confused with new sessions.
100 * Added XDMCP regression tests.
102 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.3
104 * Don't replace Plymouth if it isn't running on a valid VT
105 * Allow a null username to log in with - the system will prompt for a
107 * liblightdm API changes:
108 - Rename ldm_greeter_provide_secret to ldm_greeter_respond - responses
110 - show-prompt signal now has a PromptType field
111 - show-message signal now has a MessageType field and takes over
112 behaviour of show-error signal
113 * Fix error where an authentication failure from a previous session could
114 be interpreted as a failure in the current session.
115 * Simplify Vala bindings and add missing methods
117 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.2
119 * Fix errors communicating with PAM
120 * Fix interaction with Plytmouth.
121 * Removes the vt option in lightdm.conf, this is no longer required
122 and the active is used for the first display if Plymouth is
123 detected. A new option minimum-vt is added to select the first
124 VT to be used for other displays.
125 * On login switch to an existing session if already logged in with that
127 * Correctly connect up D-Bus interface for user switching
129 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.1
131 * Fix linking issue with -z,defs
132 * Added guest account support
133 * Restart X server if it crashes during a session
134 * Don't set language environment variables, use the daemon values
135 (system default) and leave it to ~/.profile for users to set these
136 * Change greeter library API, starting a session no longer has a language
138 * Fix greeter crash when user accounts change
140 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.0
142 * Fix crash when child processes quit
143 * Fix crash when catching signals
144 * Fix crash when session quits after X server
145 * Add internal checking for NULL object access
146 * Correctly handle signals from external programs (Thanks to Jason Conti)
147 * liblightdm API changes:
148 - ldm_greeter_start_authentication becomes ldm_greeter_login
149 - The existing ldm_greeter_login is now ldm_greeter_start_session
150 and the username parameter is not required.
151 - Drop ldm_greeter_get_default_layout (X controls the layout)
152 * Configuration changes:
153 - Use /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf instead of /etc/lightdm.conf
154 - The "displays" item is now called "seats". LightDM will fallback to
155 "displays" if "seats" is not defined, but this is deprecated and will
156 be removed by version 1.0.
157 - Make X server configuration a separate section and now has new options
158 * Automatic login users now use PAM session lightdm-autologin
159 * Use org.freedesktop.DisplayManager instead of
160 org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager for D-Bus name
161 * Add regression tests
162 * Allow many more options to be set from the command line
164 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.7
166 * Fix autologin broken in 0.3.3
168 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.6
170 * Disable Plymouth when starting
171 * Allow display vt setting to be set to "active" to start on active VT
172 * Fix login in Qt example greeter
173 * Fix typo for High Contrast menu item (GTK example greeter)
175 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.5
177 * Set working directory when logging in
178 * Massive improvements to Qt greeter
179 * Fix XDMCP authentication/authorization errors
180 * Have the daemon open a connection to a local X server
181 * Tidy up some debugging messages
183 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.4
185 * Updates to liblightdm-qt
186 * Fix --with-cache-dir not working
187 * Set greeterdir in .pc files to point to where greeter engines should be
190 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.3
192 * Don't run in test-mode if Xephyr cannot be found
193 * Fix daemon using 100% CPU after greeter quits
194 * Fix crash when users don't have GECOS data
195 * Greeters can now detect user add/remove events
196 * Fix ConsoleKit support broken with switch to GDBus
197 * Correctly clean up X processes on exit
198 * Wait for greeter to quit before running user session (fixes problem with
201 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.2
203 * Distribute GTK greeter .ui file
205 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.1
207 * Add greeter login_with_defaults method
208 * Add example to the name of all the greeters
209 * Set the configuration for the default display to use VT 7
210 * Fix the vt setting for displays, it was incorrectly named tty
211 * Fix crash when load-users is false in UserManager
212 * Fix up name of .vapi file so it can be used directly from valac
213 * Tidy up Qt library and greeter
214 * Move menubar in greeters to top of screen
215 * Fix console kit get_can_*() methods
216 * Use GtkBuilder for example GTK greeter
218 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.0
220 * Correctly pass environment variables through to the session
221 * Allow starting virtual terminal to be configured
222 * Replace D-Bus greeter communication with a private pipe
223 * Use GDBus instead of dbus-glib
224 * Use the engine process name instead of a hardcoded value in theme files
225 * Rename ldm_greeter_connect to ldm_greeter_connect_to_server so it doesn't
226 clash with GObject method name
227 * Rename ldm-gtk-greeter to lightdm-gtk-greeter
228 * Rename gnome theme to example-gtk-gnome
229 * Add more annotations to liblightdm-gobject
230 * Add an example PyGObject, Vala and QT greeter
231 * Generate metadata for QT libraries
232 * Move Webkit greeter into separate module
234 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.3
236 * Set correct linking library names in pkg-config files
237 * Handle session executables that take arguments
239 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.2
241 * Make default themedir work when --prefix is not passed to configure
242 * Look for face images in ~/.face and ~/.face.icon
243 * Put .vapi file in unversioned vala directory
244 * Fix compiling without QT
245 * Choose the VT to open the display on
246 * Set correct group memberships for sessions (Yves-Alexis Perez)
247 * Set permissions on xauthority file so it can only be read by the owning
248 user (Yves-Alexis Perez)
249 * Set correct permissions on ~/.dmrc (Yves-Alexis Perez)
250 * Add --enable-liblightdm-gobject, --enable-liblightdm-qt configure option
251 * Set environment variables from PAM (Yves-Alexis Perez)
253 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.1
255 * Use "lightdm" as default PAM service and make it configurable
256 * Rename libldmgreeter to libldmgreeter-gobject
257 * Add libldmgreeter-qt (David Edmundson)
258 * Fix gobject-introspection build
259 * Renamed libldmgreeter to liblightdm
260 * Install a .vapi file
262 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.0
264 * Make default user configuration per-display
265 * Only automatically login the first time
266 * Fix WebKit theme loading and automatic login
267 * Do cross fade for sessions that support it
268 (set X-LightDM-Supports-Transitions=true in their xsession file)
269 * Load user settings from ~/.dmrc
270 * Add configuration for default language/layout
271 * Change language/layout/session when user selected in GTK+ greeter
272 * Set default keyboard layout on first login
273 * Don't run all sessions throught /etc/X11/XSession - make the session
274 wrapper optional and configurable.
275 * Make pkgconfig file require libxklavier
276 * Only compile greeters if have dependencies
277 * Include ck-connector code to reduce library dependencies
278 * Add introspection.m4 to the source tree
279 * Support using no greeter user in lightdm.conf
280 * Flush writes to main log file
281 * Allow non-privilidged user to write greeter log file in /var
282 * Fix bugs stopping running greeter as priviledged user (i.e. root)
283 * Don't default to running greeters with the GDM user - it may not exist!
285 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.2
288 * Make user switcher API work
289 * Add a AddDisplay D-Bus method to start new displays
290 * Feed signals to GLib main loop via a pipe
291 * Add an upstart script
292 * Make theme files more similar to existing themes
293 * Change dbus namespace from org.freedesktop.LightDisplayManager to
294 org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager
295 * Write debug log to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log instead of stdout. Use
296 --debug for the previous behaviour
297 * Add exec_prefix into libldmgreeter.pc
298 * Change versioned include and pkgconfig files from 1 to 0
299 * Add themedir variable into pkgconfig file
300 * Connect language list in GTK greeter to login language
302 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.1
304 * Change licence of libldmgreeter from GPL to LGPL
305 * Write X server and session output to log files
306 * Set PATH, DESKTOP_SESSION, GDMSESSION and USERNAME environment variables
307 * Run sessions through Xsession
308 * Close all X servers on exit
309 * Send SIGHUP to X server when returning to greeter (makes all clients quit)
310 * Change authorization after a session ends so previous session does not get
312 * Make shutdown buttons work in GTK+ greeter
313 * Make user manager configurable
314 * Make GTK+ greeter show username entry if no user list
315 * Hide C and POSIX languages in greeter
316 * Load language and layout from .dmrc file
318 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.0
320 * Make --test-mode which runs as the current user
321 * Support displays acting as XDMCP terminals
322 * Support MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 and XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 authorization
323 * Support XDMCP over IPv6
325 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.4
327 * Support XDMCP logins
329 * Clean up resources on exit
330 * Create gettext instance in WebKit greeter
332 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.3
334 * Wait for signal from X server before starting session
336 * Add keyboard layout API
337 * Add gettext support to the WebKit greeter
339 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.2
341 * Fix installation of D-Bus service file
342 * Allow DISPLAY env variable to be passed to X server so can run Xephyr
343 * Handle no automatic login in webkit theme
345 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.1