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Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.4 * Don't replace Plymouth if it isn't running on a valid VT * Allow a null username to log in with - the system will prompt for a username. * liblightdm API changes: - Rename ldm_greeter_provide_secret to ldm_greeter_respond - responses may not be secrets. - show-prompt signal now has a PromptType field - show-message signal now has a MessageType field and takes over behaviour of show-error signal * Fix error where an authentication failure from a previous session could be interpreted as a failure in the current session. * Simplify Vala bindings and add missing methods Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.2 * Fix errors communicating with PAM * Fix interaction with Plytmouth. * Removes the vt option in lightdm.conf, this is no longer required and the active is used for the first display if Plymouth is detected. A new option minimum-vt is added to select the first VT to be used for other displays. * On login switch to an existing session if already logged in with that username. * Correctly connect up D-Bus interface for user switching Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.1 * Fix linking issue with -z,defs * Added guest account support * Restart X server if it crashes during a session * Don't set language environment variables, use the daemon values (system default) and leave it to ~/.profile for users to set these * Change greeter library API, starting a session no longer has a language option * Fix greeter crash when user accounts change Overview of changes in lightdm 0.4.0 * Fix crash when child processes quit * Fix crash when catching signals * Fix crash when session quits after X server * Add internal checking for NULL object access * Correctly handle signals from external programs (Thanks to Jason Conti) * liblightdm API changes: - ldm_greeter_start_authentication becomes ldm_greeter_login - The existing ldm_greeter_login is now ldm_greeter_start_session and the username parameter is not required. - Drop ldm_greeter_get_default_layout (X controls the layout) * Configuration changes: - Use /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf instead of /etc/lightdm.conf - The "displays" item is now called "seats". LightDM will fallback to "displays" if "seats" is not defined, but this is deprecated and will be removed by version 1.0. - Make X server configuration a separate section and now has new options * Automatic login users now use PAM session lightdm-autologin * Use org.freedesktop.DisplayManager instead of org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager for D-Bus name * Add regression tests * Allow many more options to be set from the command line Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.7 * Fix autologin broken in 0.3.3 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.6 * Disable Plymouth when starting * Allow display vt setting to be set to "active" to start on active VT * Fix login in Qt example greeter * Fix typo for High Contrast menu item (GTK example greeter) Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.5 * Set working directory when logging in * Massive improvements to Qt greeter * Fix XDMCP authentication/authorization errors * Have the daemon open a connection to a local X server * Tidy up some debugging messages Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.4 * Updates to liblightdm-qt * Fix --with-cache-dir not working * Set greeterdir in .pc files to point to where greeter engines should be installed Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.3 * Don't run in test-mode if Xephyr cannot be found * Fix daemon using 100% CPU after greeter quits * Fix crash when users don't have GECOS data * Greeters can now detect user add/remove events * Fix ConsoleKit support broken with switch to GDBus * Correctly clean up X processes on exit * Wait for greeter to quit before running user session (fixes problem with Compiz) Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.2 * Distribute GTK greeter .ui file Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.1 * Add greeter login_with_defaults method * Add example to the name of all the greeters * Set the configuration for the default display to use VT 7 * Fix the vt setting for displays, it was incorrectly named tty * Fix crash when load-users is false in UserManager * Fix up name of .vapi file so it can be used directly from valac * Tidy up Qt library and greeter * Move menubar in greeters to top of screen * Fix console kit get_can_*() methods * Use GtkBuilder for example GTK greeter Overview of changes in lightdm 0.3.0 * Correctly pass environment variables through to the session * Allow starting virtual terminal to be configured * Replace D-Bus greeter communication with a private pipe * Use GDBus instead of dbus-glib * Use the engine process name instead of a hardcoded value in theme files * Rename ldm_greeter_connect to ldm_greeter_connect_to_server so it doesn't clash with GObject method name * Rename ldm-gtk-greeter to lightdm-gtk-greeter * Rename gnome theme to example-gtk-gnome * Add more annotations to liblightdm-gobject * Add an example PyGObject, Vala and QT greeter * Generate metadata for QT libraries * Move Webkit greeter into separate module Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.3 * Set correct linking library names in pkg-config files * Handle session executables that take arguments Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.2 * Make default themedir work when --prefix is not passed to configure * Look for face images in ~/.face and ~/.face.icon * Put .vapi file in unversioned vala directory * Fix compiling without QT * Choose the VT to open the display on * Set correct group memberships for sessions (Yves-Alexis Perez) * Set permissions on xauthority file so it can only be read by the owning user (Yves-Alexis Perez) * Set correct permissions on ~/.dmrc (Yves-Alexis Perez) * Add --enable-liblightdm-gobject, --enable-liblightdm-qt configure option * Set environment variables from PAM (Yves-Alexis Perez) Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.1 * Use "lightdm" as default PAM service and make it configurable * Rename libldmgreeter to libldmgreeter-gobject * Add libldmgreeter-qt (David Edmundson) * Fix gobject-introspection build * Renamed libldmgreeter to liblightdm * Install a .vapi file Overview of changes in lightdm 0.2.0 * Make default user configuration per-display * Only automatically login the first time * Fix WebKit theme loading and automatic login * Do cross fade for sessions that support it (set X-LightDM-Supports-Transitions=true in their xsession file) * Load user settings from ~/.dmrc * Add configuration for default language/layout * Change language/layout/session when user selected in GTK+ greeter * Set default keyboard layout on first login * Don't run all sessions throught /etc/X11/XSession - make the session wrapper optional and configurable. * Make pkgconfig file require libxklavier * Only compile greeters if have dependencies * Include ck-connector code to reduce library dependencies * Add introspection.m4 to the source tree * Support using no greeter user in lightdm.conf * Flush writes to main log file * Allow non-privilidged user to write greeter log file in /var * Fix bugs stopping running greeter as priviledged user (i.e. root) * Don't default to running greeters with the GDM user - it may not exist! Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.2 * Write PID file * Make user switcher API work * Add a AddDisplay D-Bus method to start new displays * Feed signals to GLib main loop via a pipe * Add an upstart script * Make theme files more similar to existing themes * Change dbus namespace from org.freedesktop.LightDisplayManager to org.lightdm.LightDisplayManager * Write debug log to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log instead of stdout. Use --debug for the previous behaviour * Add exec_prefix into libldmgreeter.pc * Change versioned include and pkgconfig files from 1 to 0 * Add themedir variable into pkgconfig file * Connect language list in GTK greeter to login language Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.1 * Change licence of libldmgreeter from GPL to LGPL * Write X server and session output to log files * Set PATH, DESKTOP_SESSION, GDMSESSION and USERNAME environment variables * Run sessions through Xsession * Close all X servers on exit * Send SIGHUP to X server when returning to greeter (makes all clients quit) * Change authorization after a session ends so previous session does not get access * Make shutdown buttons work in GTK+ greeter * Make user manager configurable * Make GTK+ greeter show username entry if no user list * Hide C and POSIX languages in greeter * Load language and layout from .dmrc file Overview of changes in lightdm 0.1.0 * Make --test-mode which runs as the current user * Support displays acting as XDMCP terminals * Support MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 and XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 authorization * Support XDMCP over IPv6 Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.4 * Support XDMCP logins * Support multi-head * Clean up resources on exit * Create gettext instance in WebKit greeter Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.3 * Wait for signal from X server before starting session * Add language API * Add keyboard layout API * Add gettext support to the WebKit greeter Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.2 * Fix installation of D-Bus service file * Allow DISPLAY env variable to be passed to X server so can run Xephyr * Handle no automatic login in webkit theme Overview of changes in lightdm 0.0.1 * Initial release