1 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.7
3 * Use logind to provide the list of seats to use. Deprecate the old method
4 of manually defining seats.
5 * Add --show-config option that shows combined configuration.
6 * Drop the surfaceflinger seat type. This was a temporary solution while
7 Ubuntu Phone was migrating to Mir.
9 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.6
11 * Add a seat option 'allow-user-switching' that can disable all user
12 switching for that seat
13 * Add a new session type 'mir-container' that allows the session to run
14 inside a custom system compositor
15 * Only seat0 takes VT from Plymouth
16 * Removed unused GAsyncResultIface.is_tagged as this attribute was not
17 available in earlier versions of Glib I/O.
18 * Abort autogen if yelp-tools not installed
19 * Return correct errors for D-Bus calls
21 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.5
23 * Make PAM services configurable
25 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.4
27 * Do timed autologin each time you are returned to the greeter
28 * Fix tests failing with Qt 5.3 due to it checking getuid/geteuid which we are faking
29 * dm-tool: Warn if trying to switch to user without username
31 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.3
33 * Fix Mir sessions broken with unity-system-compositor 0.3.
34 * Add back Vala bindings for LightDM.Greeter.connect_sync - just mark as
36 * Put unity-system-compositor's mir_socket under /run rather than /tmp.
37 * Fix building with clang (3.5) and -Werror.
38 * Correct section name in default users.conf file.
40 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.2
42 * Add liblightdm method to get user UID
43 * DBus-activate logind
44 * Check for libgcrypt at configure time
46 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.1
48 * Allow greeters to remain runing to reduce startup time when switching to a
50 * Add asynchronous methods to liblightdm
52 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.11.0
54 * When switching to an existing session refresh PAM credentials and end
55 session cleanly so no resources leak.
56 * Support new standard DesktopNames field in session files
57 * Set XDG_SESSION_TYPE and XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP as used by systemd
58 * Emit DBus PropertiesChanged when Sessions/Seats properties change. Also
59 add SessionAdded/SessionRemoved signals to Seat interface
61 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.10.0
63 * Fix return value for Vala bindings to Greeter.start_session_sync
64 * Fix logging when failing to find session
66 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.15
68 * Update the lightdm AppArmor abstraction to allow the guest session to
69 start when AppArmor is mediating signals and ptrace and fix a minor, but
70 noisy, denial when applications attempt to read /proc/<PID>/stat.
72 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.14
74 * Pass --enable-hardware-greeter to unity-system-compositor for Mir sessions
77 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.13
79 * Handle not getting an X connection when attempting to get X layouts.
80 * Read config data from both XDG_DATA_DIRS and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS.
82 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.12
84 * Ensure X authority is written before X server is started
85 * Activate after unlocking a logind session
87 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.11
89 * Don't use g_hash_table_get_keys_as_array, it's a glib 2.40 feature
91 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.10
93 * Honour session type requested by greeter for guest sessions
94 * Log to wtmp and btmp.
95 * Implement guest-session config option
97 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.9
99 * Handle signals being received in child processes instead of treating them
100 like they are received in the daemon.
101 * Set utmp ut_line to the display name (i.e. :0) to match what other
102 programs expect (e.g. 'w').
103 * Fix lightdm_greeter_ensure_shared_data_dir_sync returning the wrong value.
104 * Fix shared data tests so you can run test suite without root again.
105 * Be extra careful not to call any non thread safe function after a fork.
106 * Fix some small memory leaks detected by valgrind.
107 * Fix process shutdown code to stop generating confusing warnings
108 * Fix more double removal of source IDs.
111 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.8
113 * Add support for shared user data directories between the greeter and user sessions.
114 * Refactor LightDMUser and User classes to use the same code internally.
116 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.7
118 * Correctly invoke PAM to change authentication token.
119 * Make xdg-seat a core property of a seat and always pass it to X servers.
120 * Qt bindings: properly hand over prompt and message type.
121 * Add warning flags where they are missing and fix the resulting warnings.
123 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.6
125 * Support Mir sessions in xlocal seats by starting a unity system compositor
127 * Add --screen and --fullscreen options to "dm-tool add-nested-seat"
128 * Don't try to compile liblightdm-qt if liblightdm-gobject will not be
130 * Stop greeters warning if sessions directories not present or lightdm.conf
131 doesn't exist - this is valid.
132 * Fix log name for Mir display servers
133 * Fix double removal of source IDs
135 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.5
137 * In the unity seat, if we don't have proper VT support, fake VT 0 instead
138 of a real VT number. This matches what logind expects.
140 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.4
142 * Fix issue where VTs are double used when switching sessions.
143 * Remove lightdm-set-defaults and gdmflexiserver.
144 * Add new ability to specify a list of seat types to try, rather than just
146 * Allow Mir sessions in the surfaceflinger seat.
147 * Rename the guest session wrapper to have a simpler name.
148 * Make sure sessions are associated with the display server before starting
150 * Add a dm-tool man page.
152 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.3
154 * Don't pass system user accounts from AccountsService to greeters.
155 * Fix crash if switching to greeter and it isn't installed.
157 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.2
159 * Implement missing guest-wrapper functionality and enable it for Ubuntu.
160 * Update AppArmor scripts to work in Ubuntu 13.10.
162 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.1
164 * Correctly set $XDG_SESSION_CLASS for greeters. This was regressed in 1.7.5
165 for ConsoleKit and was never passed to logind. logind/ConsoleKit treat
166 greeter sessions without this set as user sessions. This causes greeters
167 to show the lightdm user able to be logged in with.
168 * Set $USER when running the session-setup-script. This is a regression from
170 * Fix notification of sessions being logged out. This is a regression from
171 1.7.5 and caused greeters to show sessions logged in after they had been
173 * Refactor liblightdm user scanning to be simpler and more reliable. This
174 fixes bugs where some properties wouldn't be updated when they changed in
176 * Add support for a "display-stopped-script" field in lightdm.conf. The
177 "display-stopped-script" field allows us to run a script right after
178 stopping the display server.
179 * Allow dm-tool to run outside of a session if it doesn't need to be.
180 * Set $MIR_SERVER_NAME to assign a name to launched sessions. Also use a
181 "greeter-" prefix for greeter sessions for the benefit of
182 unity-system-compositor.
184 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.9.0
186 * Fix crash when starting with existing X servers. This was introduced in
187 rev 1651 (lightdm 1.7.0).
188 * Fix crash where Process objects are accessed after unref
190 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.8.0
192 * Add regression test for corrupt X authority files.
194 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.18
196 * Set session environment variables for guest sessions (1.7 regression).
197 * Don't fail writing X authority if reading it had an error.
198 * Update environment variables that we pass to Mir.
200 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.17
202 * surfaceflinger: Set XDG_VTNR=0 if VTs are not available
203 * Allow compiling of liblightdm-qt without liblightdm-gobject
204 * Add missing documentation for xremote seat options.
206 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.16
208 * Fix ConsoleKit support broken in 1.7.5
210 * Add support for running Surfaceflinger sessions
212 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.15
214 * Set XDG_VTNR=1 as a fallback if using SeatUnity without a functioning
215 compositor or working VT switching, so that logind will recognize the VT
218 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.14
220 * Correctly set permissions on Xauthority file.
222 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.13
224 * Correctly set $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP for non-autologin sessions
225 * Fix overallocation of array for strings from greeter.
226 * Fix truncation writing card32 in XDMCP server.
228 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.12
230 * Add xdg-seat config setting
231 * Notify Unity System Compositor of the session being authenticated
233 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.11
235 * Fix crash when greeter quits due to read watch not being removed
236 * Correctly setup Unity System Compositor environment
237 * Improve log messages
239 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.10
241 * Fix session locking broken in 1.7.5
242 * Load lightdm.conf after lightdm.conf.d/*.conf
243 * Also support loading config from /usr/share
244 * When switching sessions show a greeter if authentication required
245 * Set $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP if specified in the xsession file
246 * Change logging prefixes to make it easier to troubleshoot multiseat setups
247 * Bring Ubuntu packaging in-tree
249 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.9
251 * Correctly set XDG_VTNR for unity sessions that are not autologin.
253 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.8
255 * Add support for Mir sessions and greeters.
256 * Set XDG_VTNR for unity sessions.
257 * Fix desktop-session-start upstart signal not being emitted since 1.7.5.
258 * Fix greeter log broken in 1.7.5.
260 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.7
262 * Fix uninitialized pointer introduced in 1.7.3
263 * Enable compile warnings and fix code generating warnings
265 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.6
267 * Restore greeter hints that were regressed in 1.7.5.
268 * Don't run greeters through session wrapper - regression in 1.7.5
270 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.5
272 * Quit Plymouth correctly when using the unity seat type
273 * Release the VT when the system compositor fails to start
274 * Load sessions and greeters from /usr/share/lightdm/sessions and
275 /usr/share/lightdm/greeters. The existing directories are checked
276 if the sessions are not in these directories.
277 * Refactor the Display class so that it merges with the Seat class
278 * Support running the greeter and session in different display servers
279 instead of re-using the same one during a login.
280 * Add more regression tests
281 * Documentation fixes
283 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.4
285 * Set XDG_SEAT and XDG_VTNR environment variables.
286 * Add initial support for Unity (i.e. Mir based) seats.
287 * Add a greeter wrapper option.
289 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.3
291 * Load configuration from /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d.
292 * Fix compile warnings
293 * Fix tests not running from install directory inside checkout.
295 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.2
297 * Fix incorrectly distributed guest-session apparmor data
299 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.1
301 * Fix .pc file for liblightdm-qt5-3
302 * Add a new option "autologin-in-background" which lets an autologin happen
303 in a second display while still showing the greeter.
304 * Stop if fail to create default seat
305 * Add option to set seat type in lightdm-set-defaults
306 * Stop using g_file_set_contents - it can leave intermediate files around
307 * Make tests work without installing them
310 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.7.0
312 * Use logind instead of ConsoleKit if it is available
313 * Use Q_SLOTS and Q_SIGNALS instead of slots and signals.
314 * Ignore stale X server locks
315 * Pass through system locale or set locale from AccountsService/.dmrc
316 * Fix bug where seat failure before D-Bus acquired would not stop daemon
318 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.6.0
320 * Allow VNC command to be specified in lightdm.conf
321 * Register enums with QObject meta type system.
323 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.3
325 * Fix build with gobject-introspection 1.35.9
326 * Fix authentication cancel regression caused in 1.5.2
328 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.2
330 * Fix stale X server being left behind when using LockSession D-Bus API
331 * Adjust AppArmor profile to also work with logind
332 * Don't use GIO to access X authority files - it uses GVFS which is
333 unnecessary overhead/complexity
334 * Handle over/underflows when reading from greeter
335 * Improve warning message when XDMCP packet has length mismatch
336 * Only report test command line if it fails
337 * Add more regression tests
339 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.1
341 * QLightDM: Add Qt5 version of the library: liblightdm-qt5-2
342 * QLightDM: Add some missing role names in UsersModel
343 * QLightDM: Add a backgroundPath role to UsersModel
344 * QLightDM: Fix potential crash in QLightDM::UsersModel closedown.
345 * Improve guest session apparmor
346 * Run each test in its own /tmp dir so they can't interfere with eachother
347 * Fix script hooks no longer working with latest glib
348 * Fix display clean up code
350 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.5.0
352 * Add man page for lightdm-set-defaults
353 * Use xzip for distribution, don't distribute old metadata
354 * Correctly check if display is active when session quits
355 * Relicense liblightdm to LGPL-2/LGPL-3 so GPL-2 code can link against it
356 * Selectively lock memory rather than calling mlockall for main daemon
358 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.4.1
360 * Fix autologin PAM configuration
362 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.4.0
364 * Correctly implement and test autologin timeouts
365 * Add greeter-show-remote-login hint
366 * Correctly annotate enums in vapi file
367 * QLightDM: Add default constructor to Qt power interface
368 * QLightDM: Expose image path in UserModel
369 * QLightDM: Add parameter to session model to show either local or remote
371 * Fix race conditions in tests
373 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.3
375 * Add a new remote session type. These sessions create a temporary local
376 account and authenticate against a remote server. The session is an
377 application that accesses that remote session (e.g. VNC, RDP etc)
378 * Support multiple simultaneous PAM prompts
379 * Set utmp ut_host field to the X display address
380 * Correctly reap unused authentication sessions
382 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.2
384 * Handle clearenv() not being defined
385 * Fix compilation with GCC 4.7
386 * Expose remaining properties in QLightDM::Greeter
387 * Fix utmp records being written before child process created
389 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.3.1
391 * Fix wrapper path in AppArmor profile (broken since 1.1.1)
392 * Add show-manual-login and allow-guest options to lightdm-set-defaults
393 * Don't set PAM_XDISPLAY or PAM_XAUTHDATA if not supported
394 * Add lock-memory option, enabled by default, to prevent paging memory
396 * Write utmp records for sessions
397 * Install PAM configuration
398 * Run greeters inside the "lightdm-greeter" PAM service
399 * Handle setresgid and setresuid not being available
400 * Use xsession directory from lightdm.conf in liblightdm
402 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.2.0
404 * Backup .xsession-errors on login
405 * Handle failures in pam_setcred
406 * Open log files in append mode
407 * Add extra checks in liblightdm so that it doesn't send invalid messages
409 * Fix gdmflexiserver not being added to the path (broken since 1.1.4)
410 * Fix PAM conversations after authentication from locking up sessions
411 * Fix PAM informational messages locking up autologin
412 * Change XDMCP manage timeout from 10ms to 126s (maximum specified in the
415 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.9
417 * Add --show-users/--hide-users to lightdm-set-defaults
418 * Call initgroups before pam_setcred - this allows pam_setcred to change
419 group membership correctly
421 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.8
423 * Handle PAM interactions that have more than one message in one callback
425 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.7
427 * Add a seat option greeter-allow-guest which controls if the greeter should
428 provide an option to access the guest account.
429 * Add a seat option greeter-show-manual-login which hints to a greeter if it
430 should show a manual username entry if a user list is already present.
432 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.6
434 * Fix session wrapper working the same as it did in 1.1.3
436 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.5
438 * Stop file descriptors leaking into the session processes
440 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.4
442 * Change session directory once user permissions are set so it works
443 on NFS filesystems that don't allow root to access files.
444 * Restructure session code so the PAM authentication is run in its
446 * Set PAM_XDISPLAY and PAM_XAUTHDATA pam items
447 * Don't send session stdout to .xsession-errors
448 * Fix Qt bindings crash when removing a user
450 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.3
452 * Actually return the system default keyboard layout, not just 'us'
453 * Add keyboard layout variants to list of keyboard layouts
454 * Check accountsservice as well as .dmrc for users' layouts
455 * Add lightdm_user_get_layouts() to query the configured list of layouts
457 * Add Lock D-Bus method that locks the seat and provides a hint to the
458 greeter to be in lock mode.
459 * Automatically lock sessions when switching away from them
460 * Add a has-messages property to liblightdm
461 * Add regression tests for PAM modules changing usernames
462 * Don't use g_key_file_unref, it requires glib 2.32
464 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.2
466 * Add regression tests for getting the user language and layout
467 * Stop accidentally distributing libsystem
468 * Fix introspection bindings not containing any methods
469 * lightdm-set-defaults can now set the autologin user
470 * Add Python greeter regression tests (representative of all introspection
472 * Wait for the VT to become active when switching to avoid a suspected
473 race condition somewhere between LightDM, X, ConsoleKit and the kernel.
474 * Stop lightdm_greeter_start_session_sync() blocking on success.
476 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.1
478 * Add a --disable-tests option
479 * Add note to AUTHORS file where to find author list
480 * Update build system to find moc/uic
481 * Fix non-distributed tests/src/lightdm-session
482 * Fix X sessions with arguments in Exec not working
483 * Use previous session for automatic login or if greeter does not request
485 * Set default resolution of VNC to 1024x768, add settings for width, height,
486 depth into lightdm.conf.
487 * AppArmor profile: Fix broken gnome-keyring and dbus/gwibber, and quiesce
488 annoying kernel audit messages for privileges that we definitively do not
490 * Set LOGNAME environment variable
491 * Don't set USERNAME environment variable - this is not specified in POSIX,
492 please report if this causes any major problems.
493 * Drop privileges when reading ~/.dmrc
494 * Move the GTK+ and Qt greeters into their own projects
495 * Fix crash when quitting with newer GLib
496 * Fix crash calling lightdm_get_layout
497 * Support for reading users' backgrounds from Accounts Service
498 * Fix --debug working with new glib
499 * Support PAM requesting a change of password
500 * Update build system to work with automake 1.11.2
501 * Run tests inside their own system D-Bus, simulating ConsoleKit and
503 * Add regression test for users that have their home directory created after
505 * Move lightdm-guest-session from libexec to pkglibexec directory
507 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.1.0
509 * Remove GetSeatForCookie and GetSessionForCookie D-Bus methods
510 * Switching to a user without a password bypasses the greeter
511 * Use LD_PRELOAD to intercept system calls for testing
512 * Removed the --passwd-file option as not required for testing anymore
513 * Rename test-xserver to X and remove --xserver-command option
514 * Make a test session wrapper and remove --session-wrapper option
515 * Remove unused --user-session, --greeter-session, --minimum-vt,
516 --minimum-display-number options
517 * Use 'default' as the default greeter (make a symlink)
518 * GTK greeter now initializes i18n
519 * GTK greeter now remembers last user
520 * Start authentication for automtically selected user in GTK greeter
521 * Don't resize GTK greeter on each click
522 * Start authentication when scrolling through GTK greeter entries
523 * Link liblightdm-qt against QtGui
524 * Fix liblightdm-qt crashing when face images are installed
525 * Set correct permissions on session log files
526 * Introduce a lightdm-guest-session-wrapper session command which MAC
527 systems like AppArmor and SELinux can use for attaching a restrictive
528 policy to guest sessions.
529 * Provide an AppArmor profile for guest session lockdown.
530 * Fix daemon from blocking if Accounts Service does not exist
531 * Fix greeter log file not being written
532 * Don't set LANG environment variable if using Accounts Service.
533 * Fix gdmflexiserver not working due to it not being in PATH
534 * Don't authenticate the greeter user
535 * Allow greeters to be disabled in configure flags
536 * Fix over allocation of read buffer in greeter protocol
537 * Make sure objects are cleaned up on exit
538 * Fix minor memory leaks
539 * Fix reference counting issue in ConsoleKit code
540 * Fix --enable-gtk-greeter=yes not working
542 Overview of changes in lightdm 1.0.0
544 * Explicitly grab keyboard focus in GTK greeter
545 * Fix removed power and a11y menu items in GTK greeter
546 * Put system binary directory into path when running in test mode
547 * Call pam_getenvlist after pam_setcred
549 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.8
551 * GetSeatForCookie and GetSessionForCookie are now deprecated. They
552 remain for now but use the XDG_SEAT_PATH and XDG_SESSION_PATH
553 environment variables instead.
554 * Change log filenames to be unique across different display types.
555 * Fix up script hooks, add regression tests for them
556 * Complete removal of X code from the core of LightDM, so it can better
557 support various display types
558 * Add ability to set the language of a user from the greeter
559 * Set LANG variable based on the user language
560 * Add language selector into GTK greeter (disabled by default)
561 * Allow TCP/IP connections if xserver-allow-tcp is true
562 * Allow lightdm --version to be run as non-root
563 * Automatically respond to PAM messages without prompts
564 * Create 'AddLocalXSeat' D-Bus method, and require root to use 'AddSeat'
565 * Fix multi-seat configuration picking the same display number
566 * Use correct D-Bus and power interface in liblightdm-qt
567 * Run pam_setcred inside the session process so pam_group works
568 * Make sure one session is always selected in the GTK greeter
570 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.7
572 * Set PAM_TTY to the display name, not the tty device
574 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.6
576 * Only unlock displays if switched to from greeter
577 * Make log file not system readable
578 * Write ~/.Xauthority inside the session process so it cannot be hijacked
579 * Set PAM_TTY and PAM_XDISPLAY when opening PAM session
580 * Add VNC server support
581 * Do not write ~/.dmrc and ~/.Xauthority as root. [CVE-2011-3349]
583 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.5
585 * Use accounts service in the daemon if it is available
586 * Correctly load seat type in multi seat configuration
587 * Add display-setup, session-setup and session-cleanup scripting hooks
588 * Fix cancel button in GTK greeter
589 * Fix line through GTK greeter menu items
590 * Exit daemon if a seat fails which has exit-on-failure set to true
591 * Add HasGuestAccount property to seat D-Bus interface
592 * Fix XDMCP authorization
595 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.4
597 * lightdm-set-defaults enables tweaking the default session and chosen
598 greeter for lightdm. This is useful for derivatives waiting to not ship
599 the whole configuration file of lightdm
600 * Fix crash in GTK+ greeter when a user is added
601 * Move xsessions-directory and xgreeters-directory from [SeatDefaults] to
602 [LightDM]. This is a configuration break, but making it on the assumption
603 that these settings are not likely to have been overridden.
604 * Fix fallback from org.freedesktop.Accounts to passwd format
605 * Fix duplicate user entries being shown when using passwd file
606 * Add AddSeat D-Bus method for adding dynamic seats
607 * Added a dm-tool program that allows user switching and adding seats
608 * Allow remote X servers, e.g. launched using dm-tool add-nested-seat
609 * Fix bug where sessions were started when the greeter quit and the user
610 hadn't been authorized.
611 * Fix bug where sessions used the seat bus name
612 * Don't allow autologin-username to be set to empty
613 * Fix bug where PAM session was not opened before writing to home directory
614 * Fix crash when failing to write X authority
616 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.3
618 * Unlock ConsoleKit sessions when switching to them
619 * Add a gdmflexiserver binary that provides backwards compatibility with
621 * Set XDG_SEAT_PATH and XDG_SESSION_PATH environment variables for sessions.
622 * Always set XAUTHORITY environment variable so sudo keeps accessing the
624 * Connect up lightdm_user_get_logged_in in liblightdm-gobject
625 * Ignore sessions that fail TryExec or are hidden
626 * Add missing home_directory User property missing in Vala bindings
628 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.2
630 * Fix annotation and Vala bindings for getting the UserList singleton
631 * Fix GTK+ greeter error label not being shown
632 * Don't set SIGQUIT to ignore in child processes
633 * Reworked the PAM code as ecryptfs users weren't able to log in. They
634 can now but not sure what changed to fix that!?
636 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.1
638 * Fix up translation build system
639 * Add a --with-greeter-user configure option
640 * Fix greeter-user configuration not being used
641 * Abort greeter if attempted to be run as root and greeter-user set
642 * Fix setting session in GTK+ greeter
644 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.9.0
646 * Fix invalid XAUTHORITY variable being set for second X server.
647 * Fix bug where switching users created X servers without VTs
648 * Release a VT when the X server on it stops
649 * Greeters are now just standard X sessions that are stored in
650 /usr/share/xgreeters.
651 * Binaries now installed in /usr/sbin
652 * Drop most of the configure options, they aren't necessary
654 - Major reorginisation of configuration to make it easier to configure and
655 understand. Users should set [SeatDefaults] section with settings for
656 all seats, and can override each setting in a per seat configuration.
657 - Default seats are now specified using a [Seat:<name>] section. If no seats
658 are specified then one is started. This can be overridden by setting
659 start-default-seat=false in [LightDM].
660 - Support setting autologin user to guest account
661 - Split the user accounts configuration into /etc/lightdm/users.conf so the
662 main config can be private.
663 - The default user session is now "default". Distributions should put a
664 symlink to their chosen default or set one in lightdm.conf.
665 - XDMCP keys now stored in keys.conf
666 * liblightdm API changes:
667 - Both libraries are now version 1 and have API and ABI guarantees.
668 - Face images are now local paths not URIs
669 - liblightdm-gobject now uses lightdm_ prefix instead of ldm_
670 - Non-greeter functions are now moved out of the Greeter class
671 - connect_to_server() is now called connect_sync and blocks until
673 - start_session() is now called start_session_sync and blocks until
674 completion. The quit signal is removed, and the greeter should quit if
675 this method returns TRUE.
676 - login() is now called authenticate()
677 - Greeters now have hints instead of configuration (greeters should load their
678 own configuration from /etc/lightdm if they need it).
679 - liblightdm-gobject uses AccountsService if it is available
680 - Added regression tests for liblightdm-qt
682 - Expose Seats and Sessions on org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
683 - Add a CanSwitch property
684 - Rename ShowGreeter() to SwitchToGreeter()
686 - Drop "example" from the name of the GTK+ and Qt greeters and make them
687 official default greeters.
688 - Use GTK3 for GTK+ greeter.
689 - Removed the Vala and Python GTK+ greeters, they weren't being well
692 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.4
694 * Fix failure to accept XDMCP connections due to invalid assert.
695 * Allow minimum-display-number to be set in lightdm.conf and on the command
697 * Session X authority now written to ~/.Xauthority by default. It can be
698 configured to run from the system location by setting
699 user-authority-in-system-dir=true in lightdm.conf.
700 * When using system authority the authority can be updated by the user.
701 * Written X authority files now checks hostname and display number.
702 * Enironment is no longer passed through to X servers and sessions, this is
703 no longer required now PAM works correctly.
704 * liblightdm API changes:
705 - Drop ldm_greeter_get_is_first() - it was added for testing and doesn't
707 * Fix more errors where authentication messages from previous sessions could
708 be confused with new sessions.
709 * Added XDMCP regression tests.
711 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.3
713 * Don't replace Plymouth if it isn't running on a valid VT
714 * Allow a null username to log in with - the system will prompt for a
716 * liblightdm API changes:
717 - Rename ldm_greeter_provide_secret to ldm_greeter_respond - responses
719 - show-prompt signal now has a PromptType field
720 - show-message signal now has a MessageType field and takes over
721 behaviour of show-error signal
722 * Fix error where an authentication failure from a previous session could
723 be interpreted as a failure in the current session.
724 * Simplify Vala bindings and add missing methods
726 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.2
728 * Fix errors communicating with PAM
729 * Fix interaction with Plytmouth.
730 * Removes the vt option in lightdm.conf, this is no longer required
731 and the active is used for the first display if Plymouth is
732 detected. A new option minimum-vt is added to select the first
733 VT to be used for other displays.
734 * On login switch to an existing session if already logged in with that
736 * Correctly connect up D-Bus interface for user switching
738 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.1
740 * Fix linking issue with -z,defs
741 * Added guest account support
742 * Restart X server if it crashes during a session
743 * Don't set language environment variables, use the daemon values
744 (system default) and leave it to ~/.profile for users to set these
745 * Change greeter library API, starting a session no longer has a language
747 * Fix greeter crash when user accounts change
749 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.0
751 * Fix crash when child processes quit
752 * Fix crash when catching signals
753 * Fix crash when session quits after X server
754 * Add internal checking for NULL object access
755 * Correctly handle signals from external programs (Thanks to Jason Conti)
756 * liblightdm API changes:
757 - ldm_greeter_start_authentication becomes ldm_greeter_login
758 - The existing ldm_greeter_login is now ldm_greeter_start_session
759 and the username parameter is not required.
760 - Drop ldm_greeter_get_default_layout (X controls the layout)
761 * Configuration changes:
762 - Use /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf instead of /etc/lightdm.conf
763 - The "displays" item is now called "seats". LightDM will fallback to
764 "displays" if "seats" is not defined, but this is deprecated and will
765 be removed by version 1.0.
766 - Make X server configuration a separate section and now has new options
767 * Automatic login users now use PAM session lightdm-autologin
768 * Use org.freedesktop.DisplayManager instead of
769 org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager for D-Bus name
770 * Add regression tests
771 * Allow many more options to be set from the command line
773 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.7
775 * Fix autologin broken in 0.3.3
777 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.6
779 * Disable Plymouth when starting
780 * Allow display vt setting to be set to "active" to start on active VT
781 * Fix login in Qt example greeter
782 * Fix typo for High Contrast menu item (GTK example greeter)
784 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.5
786 * Set working directory when logging in
787 * Massive improvements to Qt greeter
788 * Fix XDMCP authentication/authorization errors
789 * Have the daemon open a connection to a local X server
790 * Tidy up some debugging messages
792 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.4
794 * Updates to liblightdm-qt
795 * Fix --with-cache-dir not working
796 * Set greeterdir in .pc files to point to where greeter engines should be
799 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.3
801 * Don't run in test-mode if Xephyr cannot be found
802 * Fix daemon using 100% CPU after greeter quits
803 * Fix crash when users don't have GECOS data
804 * Greeters can now detect user add/remove events
805 * Fix ConsoleKit support broken with switch to GDBus
806 * Correctly clean up X processes on exit
807 * Wait for greeter to quit before running user session (fixes problem with
810 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.2
812 * Distribute GTK greeter .ui file
814 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.1
816 * Add greeter login_with_defaults method
817 * Add example to the name of all the greeters
818 * Set the configuration for the default display to use VT 7
819 * Fix the vt setting for displays, it was incorrectly named tty
820 * Fix crash when load-users is false in UserManager
821 * Fix up name of .vapi file so it can be used directly from valac
822 * Tidy up Qt library and greeter
823 * Move menubar in greeters to top of screen
824 * Fix console kit get_can_*() methods
825 * Use GtkBuilder for example GTK greeter
827 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.0
829 * Correctly pass environment variables through to the session
830 * Allow starting virtual terminal to be configured
831 * Replace D-Bus greeter communication with a private pipe
832 * Use GDBus instead of dbus-glib
833 * Use the engine process name instead of a hardcoded value in theme files
834 * Rename ldm_greeter_connect to ldm_greeter_connect_to_server so it doesn't
835 clash with GObject method name
836 * Rename ldm-gtk-greeter to lightdm-gtk-greeter
837 * Rename gnome theme to example-gtk-gnome
838 * Add more annotations to liblightdm-gobject
839 * Add an example PyGObject, Vala and QT greeter
840 * Generate metadata for QT libraries
841 * Move Webkit greeter into separate module
843 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.3
845 * Set correct linking library names in pkg-config files
846 * Handle session executables that take arguments
848 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.2
850 * Make default themedir work when --prefix is not passed to configure
851 * Look for face images in ~/.face and ~/.face.icon
852 * Put .vapi file in unversioned vala directory
853 * Fix compiling without QT
854 * Choose the VT to open the display on
855 * Set correct group memberships for sessions (Yves-Alexis Perez)
856 * Set permissions on xauthority file so it can only be read by the owning
857 user (Yves-Alexis Perez)
858 * Set correct permissions on ~/.dmrc (Yves-Alexis Perez)
859 * Add --enable-liblightdm-gobject, --enable-liblightdm-qt configure option
860 * Set environment variables from PAM (Yves-Alexis Perez)
862 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.1
864 * Use "lightdm" as default PAM service and make it configurable
865 * Rename libldmgreeter to libldmgreeter-gobject
866 * Add libldmgreeter-qt (David Edmundson)
867 * Fix gobject-introspection build
868 * Renamed libldmgreeter to liblightdm
869 * Install a .vapi file
871 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.0
873 * Make default user configuration per-display
874 * Only automatically login the first time
875 * Fix WebKit theme loading and automatic login
876 * Do cross fade for sessions that support it
877 (set X-LightDM-Supports-Transitions=true in their xsession file)
878 * Load user settings from ~/.dmrc
879 * Add configuration for default language/layout
880 * Change language/layout/session when user selected in GTK+ greeter
881 * Set default keyboard layout on first login
882 * Don't run all sessions throught /etc/X11/XSession - make the session
883 wrapper optional and configurable.
884 * Make pkgconfig file require libxklavier
885 * Only compile greeters if have dependencies
886 * Include ck-connector code to reduce library dependencies
887 * Add introspection.m4 to the source tree
888 * Support using no greeter user in lightdm.conf
889 * Flush writes to main log file
890 * Allow non-privilidged user to write greeter log file in /var
891 * Fix bugs stopping running greeter as priviledged user (i.e. root)
892 * Don't default to running greeters with the GDM user - it may not exist!
894 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.2
897 * Make user switcher API work
898 * Add a AddDisplay D-Bus method to start new displays
899 * Feed signals to GLib main loop via a pipe
900 * Add an upstart script
901 * Make theme files more similar to existing themes
902 * Change dbus namespace from org.freedesktop.LightDisplayManager to
903 org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager
904 * Write debug log to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log instead of stdout. Use
905 --debug for the previous behaviour
906 * Add exec_prefix into libldmgreeter.pc
907 * Change versioned include and pkgconfig files from 1 to 0
908 * Add themedir variable into pkgconfig file
909 * Connect language list in GTK greeter to login language
911 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.1
913 * Change licence of libldmgreeter from GPL to LGPL
914 * Write X server and session output to log files
915 * Set PATH, DESKTOP_SESSION, GDMSESSION and USERNAME environment variables
916 * Run sessions through Xsession
917 * Close all X servers on exit
918 * Send SIGHUP to X server when returning to greeter (makes all clients quit)
919 * Change authorization after a session ends so previous session does not get
921 * Make shutdown buttons work in GTK+ greeter
922 * Make user manager configurable
923 * Make GTK+ greeter show username entry if no user list
924 * Hide C and POSIX languages in greeter
925 * Load language and layout from .dmrc file
927 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.0
929 * Make --test-mode which runs as the current user
930 * Support displays acting as XDMCP terminals
931 * Support MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 and XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 authorization
932 * Support XDMCP over IPv6
934 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.4
936 * Support XDMCP logins
938 * Clean up resources on exit
939 * Create gettext instance in WebKit greeter
941 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.3
943 * Wait for signal from X server before starting session
945 * Add keyboard layout API
946 * Add gettext support to the WebKit greeter
948 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.2
950 * Fix installation of D-Bus service file
951 * Allow DISPLAY env variable to be passed to X server so can run Xephyr
952 * Handle no automatic login in webkit theme
954 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.1