NCGreet

NCurses greeter for greetd.

Description

• Written in C++ and ncurses library
• Organized in a way it makes sense
• Sessions are read from proper place (/usr/share/wayland-sessions)
  • TODO: include Xorg sessions (I don't use X)

Screenshots

Building

> meson setup build
> ninja -C build || exit 1
> sudo ninja -C build install

• Build dependencies:
  • ncurses
  • jsoncpp
• Run dependency: greetd

Configuration and usage

Setting up greetd

Edit /etc/greetd/config.toml

[terminal]
vt = 1

[default_session]
command = "ncgreet"
user = "greeter"

Configuration of ncgreet

Copy extra/configrc to /var/lib/greetd/ncgreet-configrc (default location), or anywhere (/foo/bar/ncgreet-configrc), then load:

ncgreet --config /foo/bar/ncgreet-configrc

Version log

• 0.1 (Work in progress)
  • Goal: Get the base code in working order.