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

from gi.repository import AstalGreet as Greet

def callback(_, res):
    try
        Greet.login_finish(res)
    except Exception as e:
        print(e)

Greet.login("username", "password", "compositor", callback)

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 build
   meson install -C build