1 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.18
3 * Set session environment variables for guest sessions (1.7 regression).
4 * Don't fail writing X authority if reading it had an error.
5 * Update environment variables that we pass to Mir.
7 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.17
9 * surfaceflinger: Set XDG_VTNR=0 if VTs are not available
10 * Allow compiling of liblightdm-qt without liblightdm-gobject
11 * Add missing documentation for xremote seat options.
13 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.16
15 * Fix ConsoleKit support broken in 1.7.5
17 * Add support for running Surfaceflinger sessions
19 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.15
21 * Set XDG_VTNR=1 as a fallback if using SeatUnity without a functioning
22 compositor or working VT switching, so that logind will recognize the VT
25 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.14
27 * Correctly set permissions on Xauthority file.
29 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.13
31 * Correctly set $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP for non-autologin sessions
32 * Fix overallocation of array for strings from greeter.
33 * Fix truncation writing card32 in XDMCP server.
35 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.12
37 * Add xdg-seat config setting
38 * Notify Unity System Compositor of the session being authenticated
40 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.11
42 * Fix crash when greeter quits due to read watch not being removed
43 * Correctly setup Unity System Compositor environment
44 * Improve log messages
46 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.10
48 * Fix session locking broken in 1.7.5
49 * Load lightdm.conf after lightdm.conf.d/*.conf
50 * Also support loading config from /usr/share
51 * When switching sessions show a greeter if authentication required
52 * Set $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP if specified in the xsession file
53 * Change logging prefixes to make it easier to troubleshoot multiseat setups
54 * Bring Ubuntu packaging in-tree
56 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.9
58 * Correctly set XDG_VTNR for unity sessions that are not autologin.
60 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.8
62 * Add support for Mir sessions and greeters.
63 * Set XDG_VTNR for unity sessions.
64 * Fix desktop-session-start upstart signal not being emitted since 1.7.5.
65 * Fix greeter log broken in 1.7.5.
67 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.7
69 * Fix uninitialized pointer introduced in 1.7.3
70 * Enable compile warnings and fix code generating warnings
72 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.6
74 * Restore greeter hints that were regressed in 1.7.5.
75 * Don't run greeters through session wrapper - regression in 1.7.5
77 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.5
79 * Quit Plymouth correctly when using the unity seat type
80 * Release the VT when the system compositor fails to start
81 * Load sessions and greeters from /usr/share/lightdm/sessions and
82 /usr/share/lightdm/greeters. The existing directories are checked
83 if the sessions are not in these directories.
84 * Refactor the Display class so that it merges with the Seat class
85 * Support running the greeter and session in different display servers
86 instead of re-using the same one during a login.
87 * Add more regression tests
90 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.4
92 * Set XDG_SEAT and XDG_VTNR environment variables.
93 * Add initial support for Unity (i.e. Mir based) seats.
94 * Add a greeter wrapper option.
96 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.3
98 * Load configuration from /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d.
99 * Fix compile warnings
100 * Fix tests not running from install directory inside checkout.
102 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.2
104 * Fix incorrectly distributed guest-session apparmor data
106 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.1
108 * Fix .pc file for liblightdm-qt5-3
109 * Add a new option "autologin-in-background" which lets an autologin happen
110 in a second display while still showing the greeter.
111 * Stop if fail to create default seat
112 * Add option to set seat type in lightdm-set-defaults
113 * Stop using g_file_set_contents - it can leave intermediate files around
114 * Make tests work without installing them
117 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.0
119 * Use logind instead of ConsoleKit if it is available
120 * Use Q_SLOTS and Q_SIGNALS instead of slots and signals.
121 * Ignore stale X server locks
122 * Pass through system locale or set locale from AccountsService/.dmrc
123 * Fix bug where seat failure before D-Bus acquired would not stop daemon
125 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.6.0
127 * Allow VNC command to be specified in lightdm.conf
128 * Register enums with QObject meta type system.
130 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.3
132 * Fix build with gobject-introspection 1.35.9
133 * Fix authentication cancel regression caused in 1.5.2
135 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.2
137 * Fix stale X server being left behind when using LockSession D-Bus API
138 * Adjust AppArmor profile to also work with logind
139 * Don't use GIO to access X authority files - it uses GVFS which is
140 unnecessary overhead/complexity
141 * Handle over/underflows when reading from greeter
142 * Improve warning message when XDMCP packet has length mismatch
143 * Only report test command line if it fails
144 * Add more regression tests
146 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.1
148 * QLightDM: Add Qt5 version of the library: liblightdm-qt5-2
149 * QLightDM: Add some missing role names in UsersModel
150 * QLightDM: Add a backgroundPath role to UsersModel
151 * QLightDM: Fix potential crash in QLightDM::UsersModel closedown.
152 * Improve guest session apparmor
153 * Run each test in its own /tmp dir so they can't interfere with eachother
154 * Fix script hooks no longer working with latest glib
155 * Fix display clean up code
157 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.0
159 * Add man page for lightdm-set-defaults
160 * Use xzip for distribution, don't distribute old metadata
161 * Correctly check if display is active when session quits
162 * Relicense liblightdm to LGPL-2/LGPL-3 so GPL-2 code can link against it
163 * Selectively lock memory rather than calling mlockall for main daemon
165 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.4.1
167 * Fix autologin PAM configuration
169 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.4.0
171 * Correctly implement and test autologin timeouts
172 * Add greeter-show-remote-login hint
173 * Correctly annotate enums in vapi file
174 * QLightDM: Add default constructor to Qt power interface
175 * QLightDM: Expose image path in UserModel
176 * QLightDM: Add parameter to session model to show either local or remote
178 * Fix race conditions in tests
180 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.3
182 * Add a new remote session type. These sessions create a temporary local
183 account and authenticate against a remote server. The session is an
184 application that accesses that remote session (e.g. VNC, RDP etc)
185 * Support multiple simultaneous PAM prompts
186 * Set utmp ut_host field to the X display address
187 * Correctly reap unused authentication sessions
189 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.2
191 * Handle clearenv() not being defined
192 * Fix compilation with GCC 4.7
193 * Expose remaining properties in QLightDM::Greeter
194 * Fix utmp records being written before child process created
196 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.1
198 * Fix wrapper path in AppArmor profile (broken since 1.1.1)
199 * Add show-manual-login and allow-guest options to lightdm-set-defaults
200 * Don't set PAM_XDISPLAY or PAM_XAUTHDATA if not supported
201 * Add lock-memory option, enabled by default, to prevent paging memory
203 * Write utmp records for sessions
204 * Install PAM configuration
205 * Run greeters inside the "lightdm-greeter" PAM service
206 * Handle setresgid and setresuid not being available
207 * Use xsession directory from lightdm.conf in liblightdm
209 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.2.0
211 * Backup .xsession-errors on login
212 * Handle failures in pam_setcred
213 * Open log files in append mode
214 * Add extra checks in liblightdm so that it doesn't send invalid messages
216 * Fix gdmflexiserver not being added to the path (broken since 1.1.4)
217 * Fix PAM conversations after authentication from locking up sessions
218 * Fix PAM informational messages locking up autologin
219 * Change XDMCP manage timeout from 10ms to 126s (maximum specified in the
222 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.9
224 * Add --show-users/--hide-users to lightdm-set-defaults
225 * Call initgroups before pam_setcred - this allows pam_setcred to change
226 group membership correctly
228 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.8
230 * Handle PAM interactions that have more than one message in one callback
232 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.7
234 * Add a seat option greeter-allow-guest which controls if the greeter should
235 provide an option to access the guest account.
236 * Add a seat option greeter-show-manual-login which hints to a greeter if it
237 should show a manual username entry if a user list is already present.
239 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.6
241 * Fix session wrapper working the same as it did in 1.1.3
243 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.5
245 * Stop file descriptors leaking into the session processes
247 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.4
249 * Change session directory once user permissions are set so it works
250 on NFS filesystems that don't allow root to access files.
251 * Restructure session code so the PAM authentication is run in its
253 * Set PAM_XDISPLAY and PAM_XAUTHDATA pam items
254 * Don't send session stdout to .xsession-errors
255 * Fix Qt bindings crash when removing a user
257 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.3
259 * Actually return the system default keyboard layout, not just 'us'
260 * Add keyboard layout variants to list of keyboard layouts
261 * Check accountsservice as well as .dmrc for users' layouts
262 * Add lightdm_user_get_layouts() to query the configured list of layouts
264 * Add Lock D-Bus method that locks the seat and provides a hint to the
265 greeter to be in lock mode.
266 * Automatically lock sessions when switching away from them
267 * Add a has-messages property to liblightdm
268 * Add regression tests for PAM modules changing usernames
269 * Don't use g_key_file_unref, it requires glib 2.32
271 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.2
273 * Add regression tests for getting the user language and layout
274 * Stop accidentally distributing libsystem
275 * Fix introspection bindings not containing any methods
276 * lightdm-set-defaults can now set the autologin user
277 * Add Python greeter regression tests (representative of all introspection
279 * Wait for the VT to become active when switching to avoid a suspected
280 race condition somewhere between LightDM, X, ConsoleKit and the kernel.
281 * Stop lightdm_greeter_start_session_sync() blocking on success.
283 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.1
285 * Add a --disable-tests option
286 * Add note to AUTHORS file where to find author list
287 * Update build system to find moc/uic
288 * Fix non-distributed tests/src/lightdm-session
289 * Fix X sessions with arguments in Exec not working
290 * Use previous session for automatic login or if greeter does not request
292 * Set default resolution of VNC to 1024x768, add settings for width, height,
293 depth into lightdm.conf.
294 * AppArmor profile: Fix broken gnome-keyring and dbus/gwibber, and quiesce
295 annoying kernel audit messages for privileges that we definitively do not
297 * Set LOGNAME environment variable
298 * Don't set USERNAME environment variable - this is not specified in POSIX,
299 please report if this causes any major problems.
300 * Drop privileges when reading ~/.dmrc
301 * Move the GTK+ and Qt greeters into their own projects
302 * Fix crash when quitting with newer GLib
303 * Fix crash calling lightdm_get_layout
304 * Support for reading users' backgrounds from Accounts Service
305 * Fix --debug working with new glib
306 * Support PAM requesting a change of password
307 * Update build system to work with automake 1.11.2
308 * Run tests inside their own system D-Bus, simulating ConsoleKit and
310 * Add regression test for users that have their home directory created after
312 * Move lightdm-guest-session from libexec to pkglibexec directory
314 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.0
316 * Remove GetSeatForCookie and GetSessionForCookie D-Bus methods
317 * Switching to a user without a password bypasses the greeter
318 * Use LD_PRELOAD to intercept system calls for testing
319 * Removed the --passwd-file option as not required for testing anymore
320 * Rename test-xserver to X and remove --xserver-command option
321 * Make a test session wrapper and remove --session-wrapper option
322 * Remove unused --user-session, --greeter-session, --minimum-vt,
323 --minimum-display-number options
324 * Use 'default' as the default greeter (make a symlink)
325 * GTK greeter now initializes i18n
326 * GTK greeter now remembers last user
327 * Start authentication for automtically selected user in GTK greeter
328 * Don't resize GTK greeter on each click
329 * Start authentication when scrolling through GTK greeter entries
330 * Link liblightdm-qt against QtGui
331 * Fix liblightdm-qt crashing when face images are installed
332 * Set correct permissions on session log files
333 * Introduce a lightdm-guest-session-wrapper session command which MAC
334 systems like AppArmor and SELinux can use for attaching a restrictive
335 policy to guest sessions.
336 * Provide an AppArmor profile for guest session lockdown.
337 * Fix daemon from blocking if Accounts Service does not exist
338 * Fix greeter log file not being written
339 * Don't set LANG environment variable if using Accounts Service.
340 * Fix gdmflexiserver not working due to it not being in PATH
341 * Don't authenticate the greeter user
342 * Allow greeters to be disabled in configure flags
343 * Fix over allocation of read buffer in greeter protocol
344 * Make sure objects are cleaned up on exit
345 * Fix minor memory leaks
346 * Fix reference counting issue in ConsoleKit code
347 * Fix --enable-gtk-greeter=yes not working
349 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.0.0
351 * Explicitly grab keyboard focus in GTK greeter
352 * Fix removed power and a11y menu items in GTK greeter
353 * Put system binary directory into path when running in test mode
354 * Call pam_getenvlist after pam_setcred
356 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.8
358 * GetSeatForCookie and GetSessionForCookie are now deprecated. They
359 remain for now but use the XDG_SEAT_PATH and XDG_SESSION_PATH
360 environment variables instead.
361 * Change log filenames to be unique across different display types.
362 * Fix up script hooks, add regression tests for them
363 * Complete removal of X code from the core of LightDM, so it can better
364 support various display types
365 * Add ability to set the language of a user from the greeter
366 * Set LANG variable based on the user language
367 * Add language selector into GTK greeter (disabled by default)
368 * Allow TCP/IP connections if xserver-allow-tcp is true
369 * Allow lightdm --version to be run as non-root
370 * Automatically respond to PAM messages without prompts
371 * Create 'AddLocalXSeat' D-Bus method, and require root to use 'AddSeat'
372 * Fix multi-seat configuration picking the same display number
373 * Use correct D-Bus and power interface in liblightdm-qt
374 * Run pam_setcred inside the session process so pam_group works
375 * Make sure one session is always selected in the GTK greeter
377 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.7
379 * Set PAM_TTY to the display name, not the tty device
381 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.6
383 * Only unlock displays if switched to from greeter
384 * Make log file not system readable
385 * Write ~/.Xauthority inside the session process so it cannot be hijacked
386 * Set PAM_TTY and PAM_XDISPLAY when opening PAM session
387 * Add VNC server support
388 * Do not write ~/.dmrc and ~/.Xauthority as root. [CVE-2011-3349]
390 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.5
392 * Use accounts service in the daemon if it is available
393 * Correctly load seat type in multi seat configuration
394 * Add display-setup, session-setup and session-cleanup scripting hooks
395 * Fix cancel button in GTK greeter
396 * Fix line through GTK greeter menu items
397 * Exit daemon if a seat fails which has exit-on-failure set to true
398 * Add HasGuestAccount property to seat D-Bus interface
399 * Fix XDMCP authorization
402 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.4
404 * lightdm-set-defaults enables tweaking the default session and chosen
405 greeter for lightdm. This is useful for derivatives waiting to not ship
406 the whole configuration file of lightdm
407 * Fix crash in GTK+ greeter when a user is added
408 * Move xsessions-directory and xgreeters-directory from [SeatDefaults] to
409 [LightDM]. This is a configuration break, but making it on the assumption
410 that these settings are not likely to have been overridden.
411 * Fix fallback from org.freedesktop.Accounts to passwd format
412 * Fix duplicate user entries being shown when using passwd file
413 * Add AddSeat D-Bus method for adding dynamic seats
414 * Added a dm-tool program that allows user switching and adding seats
415 * Allow remote X servers, e.g. launched using dm-tool add-nested-seat
416 * Fix bug where sessions were started when the greeter quit and the user
417 hadn't been authorized.
418 * Fix bug where sessions used the seat bus name
419 * Don't allow autologin-username to be set to empty
420 * Fix bug where PAM session was not opened before writing to home directory
421 * Fix crash when failing to write X authority
423 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.3
425 * Unlock ConsoleKit sessions when switching to them
426 * Add a gdmflexiserver binary that provides backwards compatibility with
428 * Set XDG_SEAT_PATH and XDG_SESSION_PATH environment variables for sessions.
429 * Always set XAUTHORITY environment variable so sudo keeps accessing the
431 * Connect up lightdm_user_get_logged_in in liblightdm-gobject
432 * Ignore sessions that fail TryExec or are hidden
433 * Add missing home_directory User property missing in Vala bindings
435 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.2
437 * Fix annotation and Vala bindings for getting the UserList singleton
438 * Fix GTK+ greeter error label not being shown
439 * Don't set SIGQUIT to ignore in child processes
440 * Reworked the PAM code as ecryptfs users weren't able to log in. They
441 can now but not sure what changed to fix that!?
443 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.1
445 * Fix up translation build system
446 * Add a --with-greeter-user configure option
447 * Fix greeter-user configuration not being used
448 * Abort greeter if attempted to be run as root and greeter-user set
449 * Fix setting session in GTK+ greeter
451 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.0
453 * Fix invalid XAUTHORITY variable being set for second X server.
454 * Fix bug where switching users created X servers without VTs
455 * Release a VT when the X server on it stops
456 * Greeters are now just standard X sessions that are stored in
457 /usr/share/xgreeters.
458 * Binaries now installed in /usr/sbin
459 * Drop most of the configure options, they aren't necessary
461 - Major reorginisation of configuration to make it easier to configure and
462 understand. Users should set [SeatDefaults] section with settings for
463 all seats, and can override each setting in a per seat configuration.
464 - Default seats are now specified using a [Seat:<name>] section. If no seats
465 are specified then one is started. This can be overridden by setting
466 start-default-seat=false in [LightDM].
467 - Support setting autologin user to guest account
468 - Split the user accounts configuration into /etc/lightdm/users.conf so the
469 main config can be private.
470 - The default user session is now "default". Distributions should put a
471 symlink to their chosen default or set one in lightdm.conf.
472 - XDMCP keys now stored in keys.conf
473 * liblightdm API changes:
474 - Both libraries are now version 1 and have API and ABI guarantees.
475 - Face images are now local paths not URIs
476 - liblightdm-gobject now uses lightdm_ prefix instead of ldm_
477 - Non-greeter functions are now moved out of the Greeter class
478 - connect_to_server() is now called connect_sync and blocks until
480 - start_session() is now called start_session_sync and blocks until
481 completion. The quit signal is removed, and the greeter should quit if
482 this method returns TRUE.
483 - login() is now called authenticate()
484 - Greeters now have hints instead of configuration (greeters should load their
485 own configuration from /etc/lightdm if they need it).
486 - liblightdm-gobject uses AccountsService if it is available
487 - Added regression tests for liblightdm-qt
489 - Expose Seats and Sessions on org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
490 - Add a CanSwitch property
491 - Rename ShowGreeter() to SwitchToGreeter()
493 - Drop "example" from the name of the GTK+ and Qt greeters and make them
494 official default greeters.
495 - Use GTK3 for GTK+ greeter.
496 - Removed the Vala and Python GTK+ greeters, they weren't being well
499 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.4
501 * Fix failure to accept XDMCP connections due to invalid assert.
502 * Allow minimum-display-number to be set in lightdm.conf and on the command
504 * Session X authority now written to ~/.Xauthority by default. It can be
505 configured to run from the system location by setting
506 user-authority-in-system-dir=true in lightdm.conf.
507 * When using system authority the authority can be updated by the user.
508 * Written X authority files now checks hostname and display number.
509 * Enironment is no longer passed through to X servers and sessions, this is
510 no longer required now PAM works correctly.
511 * liblightdm API changes:
512 - Drop ldm_greeter_get_is_first() - it was added for testing and doesn't
514 * Fix more errors where authentication messages from previous sessions could
515 be confused with new sessions.
516 * Added XDMCP regression tests.
518 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.3
520 * Don't replace Plymouth if it isn't running on a valid VT
521 * Allow a null username to log in with - the system will prompt for a
523 * liblightdm API changes:
524 - Rename ldm_greeter_provide_secret to ldm_greeter_respond - responses
526 - show-prompt signal now has a PromptType field
527 - show-message signal now has a MessageType field and takes over
528 behaviour of show-error signal
529 * Fix error where an authentication failure from a previous session could
530 be interpreted as a failure in the current session.
531 * Simplify Vala bindings and add missing methods
533 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.2
535 * Fix errors communicating with PAM
536 * Fix interaction with Plytmouth.
537 * Removes the vt option in lightdm.conf, this is no longer required
538 and the active is used for the first display if Plymouth is
539 detected. A new option minimum-vt is added to select the first
540 VT to be used for other displays.
541 * On login switch to an existing session if already logged in with that
543 * Correctly connect up D-Bus interface for user switching
545 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.1
547 * Fix linking issue with -z,defs
548 * Added guest account support
549 * Restart X server if it crashes during a session
550 * Don't set language environment variables, use the daemon values
551 (system default) and leave it to ~/.profile for users to set these
552 * Change greeter library API, starting a session no longer has a language
554 * Fix greeter crash when user accounts change
556 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.0
558 * Fix crash when child processes quit
559 * Fix crash when catching signals
560 * Fix crash when session quits after X server
561 * Add internal checking for NULL object access
562 * Correctly handle signals from external programs (Thanks to Jason Conti)
563 * liblightdm API changes:
564 - ldm_greeter_start_authentication becomes ldm_greeter_login
565 - The existing ldm_greeter_login is now ldm_greeter_start_session
566 and the username parameter is not required.
567 - Drop ldm_greeter_get_default_layout (X controls the layout)
568 * Configuration changes:
569 - Use /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf instead of /etc/lightdm.conf
570 - The "displays" item is now called "seats". LightDM will fallback to
571 "displays" if "seats" is not defined, but this is deprecated and will
572 be removed by version 1.0.
573 - Make X server configuration a separate section and now has new options
574 * Automatic login users now use PAM session lightdm-autologin
575 * Use org.freedesktop.DisplayManager instead of
576 org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager for D-Bus name
577 * Add regression tests
578 * Allow many more options to be set from the command line
580 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.7
582 * Fix autologin broken in 0.3.3
584 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.6
586 * Disable Plymouth when starting
587 * Allow display vt setting to be set to "active" to start on active VT
588 * Fix login in Qt example greeter
589 * Fix typo for High Contrast menu item (GTK example greeter)
591 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.5
593 * Set working directory when logging in
594 * Massive improvements to Qt greeter
595 * Fix XDMCP authentication/authorization errors
596 * Have the daemon open a connection to a local X server
597 * Tidy up some debugging messages
599 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.4
601 * Updates to liblightdm-qt
602 * Fix --with-cache-dir not working
603 * Set greeterdir in .pc files to point to where greeter engines should be
606 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.3
608 * Don't run in test-mode if Xephyr cannot be found
609 * Fix daemon using 100% CPU after greeter quits
610 * Fix crash when users don't have GECOS data
611 * Greeters can now detect user add/remove events
612 * Fix ConsoleKit support broken with switch to GDBus
613 * Correctly clean up X processes on exit
614 * Wait for greeter to quit before running user session (fixes problem with
617 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.2
619 * Distribute GTK greeter .ui file
621 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.1
623 * Add greeter login_with_defaults method
624 * Add example to the name of all the greeters
625 * Set the configuration for the default display to use VT 7
626 * Fix the vt setting for displays, it was incorrectly named tty
627 * Fix crash when load-users is false in UserManager
628 * Fix up name of .vapi file so it can be used directly from valac
629 * Tidy up Qt library and greeter
630 * Move menubar in greeters to top of screen
631 * Fix console kit get_can_*() methods
632 * Use GtkBuilder for example GTK greeter
634 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.0
636 * Correctly pass environment variables through to the session
637 * Allow starting virtual terminal to be configured
638 * Replace D-Bus greeter communication with a private pipe
639 * Use GDBus instead of dbus-glib
640 * Use the engine process name instead of a hardcoded value in theme files
641 * Rename ldm_greeter_connect to ldm_greeter_connect_to_server so it doesn't
642 clash with GObject method name
643 * Rename ldm-gtk-greeter to lightdm-gtk-greeter
644 * Rename gnome theme to example-gtk-gnome
645 * Add more annotations to liblightdm-gobject
646 * Add an example PyGObject, Vala and QT greeter
647 * Generate metadata for QT libraries
648 * Move Webkit greeter into separate module
650 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.3
652 * Set correct linking library names in pkg-config files
653 * Handle session executables that take arguments
655 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.2
657 * Make default themedir work when --prefix is not passed to configure
658 * Look for face images in ~/.face and ~/.face.icon
659 * Put .vapi file in unversioned vala directory
660 * Fix compiling without QT
661 * Choose the VT to open the display on
662 * Set correct group memberships for sessions (Yves-Alexis Perez)
663 * Set permissions on xauthority file so it can only be read by the owning
664 user (Yves-Alexis Perez)
665 * Set correct permissions on ~/.dmrc (Yves-Alexis Perez)
666 * Add --enable-liblightdm-gobject, --enable-liblightdm-qt configure option
667 * Set environment variables from PAM (Yves-Alexis Perez)
669 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.1
671 * Use "lightdm" as default PAM service and make it configurable
672 * Rename libldmgreeter to libldmgreeter-gobject
673 * Add libldmgreeter-qt (David Edmundson)
674 * Fix gobject-introspection build
675 * Renamed libldmgreeter to liblightdm
676 * Install a .vapi file
678 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.0
680 * Make default user configuration per-display
681 * Only automatically login the first time
682 * Fix WebKit theme loading and automatic login
683 * Do cross fade for sessions that support it
684 (set X-LightDM-Supports-Transitions=true in their xsession file)
685 * Load user settings from ~/.dmrc
686 * Add configuration for default language/layout
687 * Change language/layout/session when user selected in GTK+ greeter
688 * Set default keyboard layout on first login
689 * Don't run all sessions throught /etc/X11/XSession - make the session
690 wrapper optional and configurable.
691 * Make pkgconfig file require libxklavier
692 * Only compile greeters if have dependencies
693 * Include ck-connector code to reduce library dependencies
694 * Add introspection.m4 to the source tree
695 * Support using no greeter user in lightdm.conf
696 * Flush writes to main log file
697 * Allow non-privilidged user to write greeter log file in /var
698 * Fix bugs stopping running greeter as priviledged user (i.e. root)
699 * Don't default to running greeters with the GDM user - it may not exist!
701 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.2
704 * Make user switcher API work
705 * Add a AddDisplay D-Bus method to start new displays
706 * Feed signals to GLib main loop via a pipe
707 * Add an upstart script
708 * Make theme files more similar to existing themes
709 * Change dbus namespace from org.freedesktop.LightDisplayManager to
710 org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager
711 * Write debug log to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log instead of stdout. Use
712 --debug for the previous behaviour
713 * Add exec_prefix into libldmgreeter.pc
714 * Change versioned include and pkgconfig files from 1 to 0
715 * Add themedir variable into pkgconfig file
716 * Connect language list in GTK greeter to login language
718 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.1
720 * Change licence of libldmgreeter from GPL to LGPL
721 * Write X server and session output to log files
722 * Set PATH, DESKTOP_SESSION, GDMSESSION and USERNAME environment variables
723 * Run sessions through Xsession
724 * Close all X servers on exit
725 * Send SIGHUP to X server when returning to greeter (makes all clients quit)
726 * Change authorization after a session ends so previous session does not get
728 * Make shutdown buttons work in GTK+ greeter
729 * Make user manager configurable
730 * Make GTK+ greeter show username entry if no user list
731 * Hide C and POSIX languages in greeter
732 * Load language and layout from .dmrc file
734 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.0
736 * Make --test-mode which runs as the current user
737 * Support displays acting as XDMCP terminals
738 * Support MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 and XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 authorization
739 * Support XDMCP over IPv6
741 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.4
743 * Support XDMCP logins
745 * Clean up resources on exit
746 * Create gettext instance in WebKit greeter
748 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.3
750 * Wait for signal from X server before starting session
752 * Add keyboard layout API
753 * Add gettext support to the WebKit greeter
755 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.2
757 * Fix installation of D-Bus service file
758 * Allow DISPLAY env variable to be passed to X server so can run Xephyr
759 * Handle no automatic login in webkit theme
761 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.1