Package: lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings
Version: 1.2.2-1
Severity: important

Hi,

I tried lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings and it seems that it somehow
doesn't work. I ran i through pkexec, did some adjustement (mainly tried
to enable indicators), the only result was that it truncated
/etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf.

I've set the severity “only” to important in case there's something
specific in my configuration, but truncating the one configuration file
the package is supposed to handle looks RC to me if the bug is
confirmed.

As a side note, I have a local configuration in
/etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf.d/10_user.conf, I'm unsure if that
would confuse l-g-g-settings or not.

If you need more information, please ask.

Regards,

Hi Yves-Alexis,

It might be helpful to include the contents of
/etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf.d/*, as well as the
lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf before and after attempting to modify it using
l-g-g-s.

Toggling the "Redefine indicators" option seems to work fine here with a
single conf file and with a split setup: I tested briefly by copying my
background entry from lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf into a new file under
/etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf.d/. That said, I haven't tried the
external indicators feature as I'm honestly not sure how to set it up -
I don't know if there even are relevant indicator libs on my system.

Best,
James

/etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf is all-commented except [greeter]
/etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf.d/10_user.conf has:

[greeter]
hide-user-image=true
theme-name=Adwaita
font-name=Sans 8
clock-format = %a %d %b, %R

Here I don't even touch what's inside the indicators box, only the toggle. I/m
running l-g-g-settings through pkexec, in case that matters.

Regards,

I forgot to follow up with this formally. I've tried changing settings
like font, background, etc. from l-g-g-s locally and never got any sort
of truncation issues.

I suspect that if this happens again, the app will log some errors,
maybe in ~/.xsession-errors or the terminal if you run l-g-g-s from one?

Best,
James