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