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Greet

Library and CLI tool for sending requests to greetd.

Usage

You can browse the Greet reference.

CLI

sh
astal-greet --help

Library

js
import Greet from "gi://AstalGreet"

Greet.login("username", "password", "compositor", (_, res) => {
    try {
        Greet.login_finish(res)
    } catch (err) {
        printerr(err)
    }
})
py
# 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
sh
sudo pacman -Syu meson vala json-glib gobject-introspection
sh
sudo dnf install meson vala valadoc json-glib-devel gobject-introspection-devel
sh
sudo apt install meson valac 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.

  1. clone repo
sh
git clone https://github.com/aylur/astal.git
cd astal/lib/greet
  1. install
sh
meson setup --prefix /usr build
meson install -C build

Released under the LGPL v2.1 License