SLICK-GREETER(8)

💖 SLICK-GREETER(8) — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is a page from section 8 of the manual, the System management commands girlies, and it's literally called slick-greeter. sit down, hydrate, let's go 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

slick-greeter — the distro agnostic LightDM greeter 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

slick-greeter [ OPTIONS ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so. Slick Greeter is a LightDM greeter for all desktops. not like, a picky one. it works everywhere. iconic behaviour honestly 👑

here's the thing though — it gets run by the LightDM daemon if you've configured it in lightdm.conf. it is not normally run by a user. like, that's not its whole thing. BUT. if you hit it with the --test-mode option, it can run in a test mode. which means you get to test the interface without installing an updated version. no cap, that's genuinely so useful 💖

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -v, --version — shows the release version. that's it. that's the whole job. ✨
• --test-mode — runs the greeter in a test mode inside the current X session. perfect for vibe-checking it before you commit 🧚
• -?, --help — shows the help options. when in doubt, ask for help. always 🌈

🎀 Configuration File-Format 🎀

the file in question, bestie:

/etc/lightdm/slick-greeter.conf

all the available configuration options are listed below. every single one. we don't gatekeep here 💜

• background= — the background file to use, either an image path or a color (e.g. #772953)
• background-color= — the background color (e.g. #772953), set before the wallpaper is seen
• draw-user-backgrounds= — whether to draw user backgrounds (true or false)
• draw-grid= — whether to draw an overlay grid (true or false)
• show-hostname= — whether to show the hostname in the menubar (true or false)
• show-keyboard= — whether to show the keyboard indicator in the menubar (true or false)
• show-a11y= — whether to show the accessibility options in the menubar (true or false)
• show-power= — whether to show the power indicator in the menubar (true or false)
• show-clock= — whether to show the clock in the menubar (true or false)
• show-quit= — whether to show the quit menu in the menubar (true or false)
• logo= — the logo file to use
• other-monitors-logo= — the logo file to use for other monitors
• theme-name= — the GTK+ theme to use
• icon-theme-name= — the icon theme to use
• font-name= — the font to use
• xft-antialias= — whether to antialias Xft fonts (true or false)
• xft-dpi= — the resolution for Xft in dots per inch
• xft-hintstyle= — what degree of hinting to use (hintnone/hintslight/hintmedium/hintfull)
• xft-rgba= — the type of subpixel antialiasing (none/rgb/bgr/vrgb/vbgr)
• onscreen-keyboard= — whether to enable the onscreen keyboard (true or false)
• high-contrast= — whether to use a high contrast theme (true or false)
• screen-reader= — whether to enable the screen reader (true or false)
• play-ready-sound= — a sound file to play when the greeter is ready 🔊
• hidden-users= — a list of usernames that are hidden until a special key combination is hit 🤫
• group-filter= — a list of groups that users must be part of to be shown (an empty list shows all users)
• enable-hidpi= — whether to enable HiDPI support (on/off/auto)
• only_on_monitor= — sets the monitor on which to show the login window; -1 means "follow the mouse" 🐭

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

lightdm

that's the whole page, no notes 💖

and that's a wrap on this Linux girlie, dated 2019-07-10, from the SLICK-GREETER(8) manual — go forth and configure your greeter, bestie, you're the main character of your own login screen 🌟💅✨