## page was renamed from Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/R/LightDM-Greeter
This is a short specification of what could be improved in the lightdm-gtk-greeter and what design it could feature.
It will show a few mockups and describe the functionality the gtk-greeter should gain.

There's also another (collaborative) effort with folks from Lubuntu to improve the greeter: [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/frankbooth/lightdm-gtk-greeter|link]]

[[https://launchpad.net/lightdm-gtk-switcher|Launchpad Project]]


== Features ==
  * Show clock/date
  * Integrate accessibility menu and shutdown/restart menu into login-box and drop top panel
  * Lock the screen
  * Correctly scale the wallpaper/background
  * Better multi-monitor support (as laid out [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Quantal/MultipleMonitors|here]])

== Screen Lock (Postponed) ==
'''Todo list''':
  * find which dbus call is used to lock the session with lightdm (cf. http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~lightdm-team/lightdm/trunk/view/head:/tests/src/test-session.c#L45)
   * There is a command that does this, gdmflexiserver
   * This command does the dbus call as such
    * dbus-send --system --type=method_call --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.DisplayManager $XDG_SEAT_PATH org.freedesktop.DisplayManager.Seat.SwitchToGreeter
     * Neither Seat.SwitchToGreeter, nor Seat.Lock or Session.Lock seem to really lock the session, instead lightdm gets respawned at tty9.
  * update action plugin from xfce4-panel (cf. http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/tree/plugins/actions/actions.c#n963, probably not needed, xflock4 is called)
  * update xflock4 (cf. http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-session/tree/scripts/xflock4)
  * update xfce4-power-manager (cf. http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-power-manager/tree/common/xfpm-common.c#n82, add a call to xflock4 first)
  * test?

== The Plan ==
 * Modify xflock4 and run tests
  * Panel > Action Buttons '''(Done)'''
  * xflock4 from Terminal '''(Done)'''
  * Power Manager > Suspend
 * Modify the greeter so that certain widgets are not shown (or are insensitive) when used as a lock screen.
  * User Selection combobox
  * Session combobox
  * Language combobox
 * Add a ''Switch User'' button

== Mockups ==
  * Here's an interesting mockup taken from Debian's artwork contest, entitled [[http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/7th-element|7th-element]].
    [[attachment:greeter-7th-element.png|{{attachment:greeter-7th-element.png||width=400}}]]