Tracking down the elusive lightdm-webkit-greeter bug

[Valtam]

Whilst making changes to the new login screen, I noticed in the /usr/share/lightdm-webkit/themes/linuxlite/index.theme file the following line was:

Code:

session=gnome

So I changed it to:

Code:

session=xfce4

and it seems to have done no harm. I've made this change on my main system as well as in VB.
I am hoping that this is the cause of the occasional time where you login and the webkit-greeter window appears and you have to close it.
If you'd like to jump on the 'test that theory bandwagon' please feel free and let me know how you get on

[gold_finger]

Just changed it on my system.  Will let you know if it causes any immediate issues.  I've had the occational greeter window pop-up before, but not very often -- so probably won't know for sure if problem solved until a few weeks go by.

[Valtam]

That's ok gold_finger, thanks for helping.

[Scott(0)]

Just changed it on my system too. Like gold_finger the problem doesn't occur very often. About the only semi-consistent thing I could say about it is when it does happen it will happen on maybe three consecutive boots and then not again for a month or more.

[gold_finger]

Just following up on this.  So far no webkit greeter has popped-up on my main system that was changed a few weeks ago.

HOWEVER -- I just installed LL 2.2 (32-bit) yesterday to spare laptop to test some things out and today got the pop-up.  Checked referenced file and noticed that it was already set to "session=xfce", so I assume that fix was added to the ISO file.  Apparently that didn't fix the issue.

Oh well -- guess it will remain a mystery.  :-\

[Valtam]

Thanks gold_finger. I've had it appear once in 2.2 I take pride in offering a bug free OS so in 3.0 it's quite likely I'll drop lightdm webkit and use lightdm greeter or something else.

[technomancer]

I have the "lightdm-webkit-greeter" as an empty window, window popping up at every startup when i log into my profile. However on my spouses profile it never comes up. I assume it has something to do with customizations I have done. I will try the fix below, and post any findings....... :

[technomancer]

It looks as if the entry is correct. Any ideas ? I am going to try the default theme.



Update: I switched back to the Default window theme and
window appearance theme and logged in several times-> no more odd behavior.no window.
Most likely a theming issue/setting. Solved for me.
As far as to why it happens,

I may look into it -----------unless Jerry goes to lightdm-greeter instead of lightdm-webkit.

[rokytnji]

For me. On my touchscreen Dell. When I got a Lightdm ghost desktop that i could just close in the toolbar.

I ran a strace and a dmesg | tail in terminal right afterwards to see if I could figure out the errors.
It was just a mental exercise for me so I did not post about it.

Just command line foo stuff. It does not happen enough (all the time) to really concern me.
I have a heavily customized theme and icon and font Linux-Lite install.

https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/index...99#msg9599

[Valtam]

Thanks for the info everyone