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
install dependencies
shsudo pacman -Syu meson vala valadoc json-glib gobject-introspection
shsudo dnf install meson vala valadoc json-glib-devel gobject-introspection-devel
shsudo 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.clone repo
shgit clone https://github.com/aylur/astal.git cd astal/lib/greet
install
shmeson setup build meson install -C build