Greet

Library and CLI tool for sending requests to greetd.

Usage

You can browse the Greet reference.

CLI

astal-greet --help

Library

JavaScript

import Greet from "gi://AstalGreet"

Greet.login("username", "password", "compositor", (_, res) => {
    try {
        Greet.login_finish(res)
    } catch (err) {
        printerr(err)
    }
})

Python

# Not yet documented

Lua

local Greet = require("lgi").require("AstalGreet")

Greet.login("username", "password", "compositor", function (_, res)
    local err = Greet.login_finish(res)
    if err ~= nil then
        print(err)
    end
end)

Vala

try {
    yield AstalGreet.login("username", "password", "compositor");
} catch (Error err) {
    printerr(err.message);
}

Installation

1. install dependencies

Arch

sudo pacman -Syu meson vala valadoc json-glib gobject-introspection

Fedora

sudo dnf install meson vala valadoc json-glib-devel gobject-introspection-devel

Ubuntu

sudo apt install meson valac valadoc libjson-glib-dev gobject-introspection

INFO

Although greetd is not a direct build dependency, it should be self-explanatory that the daemon is required to be available at runtime.

2. clone repo

git clone https://github.com/aylur/astal.git
cd astal/lib/greet

3. install

meson setup --prefix /usr build
meson install -C build