greetd-mini-wl-greeter

An extremely simple raw Wayland greeter for greetd, inspired by lightdm-mini-greeter.

The aim is to do just what I want it to as quick as possible. On a 2015 Macbook Pro, with no background image or font options, startup takes ~35ms. On a Raspberry Pi Zero 2, it takes ~500ms, mostly waiting for EGL / OpenGL to initialise.

Usage

Follow the same steps as for e.g. gtkgreet in the greetd wiki. See the man page for configuration options. All colors and sizes can be customised, and a PNG background image can be displayed scaled and centered.

Install

Arch

greetd-mini-wl-greeter is available on the AUR:

paru -S greetd-mini-wl-greeter-git

Source

meson setup build -Dbuildtype=release
meson install -C build

Tips

It's quite entertaining to set the password character to one from the combining diacritical marks page, e.g.

greetd-mini-wl-greeter -C ̣