Use gnome-shell as a LightDM greeter

Bug #1694962 reported by Robert Ancell
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Bug Description

gnome-shell currently acts as the GDM greeter. If we could make gnome-shell act as a LightDM greeter we could drop unity-greeter.

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
assignee: nobody → Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote :
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
tags: added: gnome-17.10
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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

When I try to run GNOME Shell as a greeter the background doesn't render and the titlebar pixels start to bleed together. I get the same issue just running an X server on its own and running G-S in it.

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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

We don't plan to do this for Ubuntu as we're using GDM [1]. Keeping open as it still would be desirable to do for those who do use LightDM and want to try GNOME.

[1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2017-June/004969.html

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
assignee: Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) → nobody
importance: High → Wishlist
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Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote : Re: [Bug 1694962] Re: Use gnome-shell as a LightDM greeter

Do you have a branch with wip code somewhere Robert? I might try take a
look Into this later when work calms down a bit

On Thu, Jun 8, 2017, at 02:50 PM, Robert Ancell wrote:
> We don't plan to do this for Ubuntu as we're using GDM [1]. Keeping open
> as it still would be desirable to do for those who do use LightDM and
> want to try GNOME.
>
> [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-
> desktop/2017-June/004969.html
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) => (unassigned)
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
> Importance: High => Wishlist
>
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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

This is a part working patch I found lying around...

tags: added: patch
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