lightdm-webkit2-c3c

Link to Demo-Video

This is a simple greeter for lightdm-webkit2, with a countdown to the next Chaos Communication Congress.

How to install and setup on Arch Linux

you need the webkit2 greeter for lightdm

pacman -S lightdm-webkit2-greeter

then you can clone this repo (you need root privileges to clone this repo directly into the theme forlder)

git clone https://git.elektrollart.org/Elektroll/lightdm-webkit2-c3c.git /usr/share/lightdm-webkit/themes/c3c

Edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and add this line, if not exists:

[Seat:*]
greeter-session = lightdm-webkit2-greeter

Set the the theme which lightdm-webkit2-greeter should use in /etc/lightdm/lightdm-webkit2-greeter.conf :

webkit_theme        = c3c

c3c is the foldername.

Edit LightDM config file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

[LightDM]
minimum-vt=7 # Setting this to a value < 7 implies security issues, see FS#46799
log-directory=/var/log/lightdm
run-directory=/run/lightdm
sessions-directory=/usr/share/lightdm/sessions:/usr/share/xsessions:/usr/share/wayland-sessions


[Seat:*]
greeter-session = lightdm-webkit2-greeter
pam-service=lightdm
user-session=1hikari
session-wrapper=/etc/lightdm/Xsession

[XDMCPServer]

[VNCServer]
ROOT#

If you use a different dm, like GDM from gnome, disable this service

systemctl stop gdm
systemctl disable gdm

and start lightdm

systemctl start lightdm

if all works fine and you can login, enable lightdm

systemctl enable lightdm