Is that possible to build Ubuntu Login screen under OpenSUSE?
Required packages are:
lightdm
gnome-settings-daemon
indicator-session-gtk2 **
unity-greeter**
I understand, that first two are part of the standard repo.
I’ve tried to build last two under Fedora, no success. Heavy dependencies: debhelper, gtk±3.0, indicator3 and some more…
My 2 cents: You’re entering the world where *buntu left FOSS and went for it’s own glory. You cannot simply turn around openSUSE to become a *buntu clone. If *buntu functionality / appearance is your choice, run *buntu. But, like said, that’s just my 2 cents.
Offtopic:
Excuse me, but Novell, was one of the companies (Novell, Fuji-Xerox, Samsung and Xandros) that have bent down in front of Microsoft.
At the same time Mandriva, Canonical and Red Hat refused to sign any bullcrap, so, technically, BNT* more FOSS than OpenSUSE.
On 03/18/2013 11:36 AM, AnthraxThrash wrote:
>
> Offtopic:
>
> Excuse me, but Novell, was one of the companies (Novell, Fuji-Xerox,
> Samsung and Xandros) that have bent down in front of Microsoft.
>
> At the same time Mandriva, Canonical and Red Hat refused to sign any
> bullcrap, so, technically, BNT* more FOSS than OpenSUSE.
just wondering:
-do you think anyone here was asked if we wanted the folks who bought
SuSE.de to even speak to M$, much less cut a deal with them?
-do you think (if anyone here had been asked) we would have jumped
up and said, “YES, gimme some of those big bucks too–i will deal
with that monopoli$tic felon”?)
-do you think anyone other than the shareholders, board members and
corporate suits got a cut of the BIG bucks M$ paid dearly for to get
that ink?
-and by the way, do you think any of the people here was asked or
pre-approved the sale of SuSE to Novell?
-so, if Red Hat made a deal with Ora¢le do you think the Fedora
Community would need to calmly accept your ire?
now, back on topic and your question:
> Is that possible to build Ubuntu Login screen under OpenSUSE?
>
ontopic: i really do not know but you are welcome to hang out and
wait to see if someone does…or, just try it yourself and let us
know…
To answer the question. LightDM is in the standard repos since 12.1.
software.opensuse.org/package/lightdm
zypper wp lightdm
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository
--+---------+---------+-------------+--------+------------------
| lightdm | package | 1.4.0-6.4.1 | x86_64 | openSUSE-12.3-Oss
| lightdm | package | 1.4.0-6.4.1 | i586 | openSUSE-12.3-Oss
@ zerum
LightDM which is used in Ubuntu was significantly re-designed. Standard package doesn’t have all those changes.
I didn’t know that. Thanks.
On 03/18/2013 03:56 PM, AnthraxThrash wrote:
> LightDM which is used in Ubuntu was significantly re-designed.
if the Ubuntu re-designed LightDM comes in a .deb file why not try
using alien to install it and the dependencies you noted in your
first post?
you might consider testing it first on your sandbox system…
I’ve tried alien. Unfortunately the output rpm package is not installable.
My attempts to build unity-greeter have failed as well:
http://s10.postimage.org/o139ka4b9/unity_greeter.jpg](http://postimage.org/image/o139ka4b9/)
I have downloaded indicator3-* sources, and if I’m lucky, this evening I will build the unity-greeter.
Sources from here:
~mterry/libindicator/gtk3 : files for revision 365](http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mterry/libindicator/gtk3/files)
Any assistance is welcome.
I’ve compiled indicator (./configure make make install), but unity-greeter still doesn’t see the indicator3-0.4…
I don’t know is it good or bad, but I’ve found one more resource with the same problem as mine:
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=unity-greeter&project=home%3Anobange#
What’s so special about that indicator3-0.4 lib???
You can install indicator related dependency from this repo: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Ayatana
It’s just libindicator3-devel package.
