super minimal, non-graphical, terminal based desktop session launcher via lightdm
Install the lightdm-cmd-greeter package from the AUR
or manually (tested only in Arch Linux):
- Install the lightdm, python and python-pydbus packages
- Clone this repo
- Put lightdm-cmd-greeter.desktop into /usr/share/xgreeters/
- Put com.greyltc.cgreet.conf into /etc/dbus-1/system.d/ (& create that folder if it does not exist)
- Put lightdm-cmd-greeter into /usr/bin/
- Reload the dbus service
- Make sure lightdm is your only enabled display manager service
- Edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf so that
greeter-session=lightdm-cmd-greeteris under the[Seat:*]section
- Restart the lightdm service
- this should end your desktop session and present you with your new greeter (a black screen since this is not a graphical greeter)
- Somehow open a terminal on the computer (via ssh or ctrl-alt-f2 or something)
- Execute lightdm-cmd-greeter-login
- You'll be prompted for a user name and password
- If you enter them correctly, that user's default desktop session should launch