In case anyone was wondering what version of LightDM they should run / when to update here is a list of new features between each supported release. 1.2 - Oldest supported release - Support ends April 2017 1.10 - logind support - Multi-seat support through logind if logind-load-seats=true - Removed lightdm-set-defaults (use configuration snippets) and gdmflexiserver (use dm-tool) - Mir sessions and greeters supported - Remote sessions - Background automatic logins (i.e. login while still showing greeter) - Run greeters through lightdm-greeter PAM service - Memory so it can't be paged to disk - Unity System Compositor can be used as a session switcher - Greeter wrapper option - Sessions can be loaded from /usr/share/lightdm/sessions and greeters from /usr/share/lightdm/greeters - Configuration option for Xvnc command - Script hook for when displays stop - Guest session wrapper script - Support multiple seat types, falling back if one fails - Shared data between greetes and sessions - Log records to wtmp and bmtp - Guest session can be configured - User switching can be disabled - Do a timed autologin each time you are returned to the greeter - PAM services configurable - Support ends April 2019 1.14 - Multi-seat support through logind by default - Multi-seat configuration can use section names with glob matching (e.g. [Seat:usb-*]) - Greeter can continue to run in background (speed up switching) - Support ends January 2016 1.16 - Deprecate [SeatDefaults] configuration section (use [Seat:*]) - Use IP address of XDMCP requests to contact X server if available. - Add an option for XDMCP and VNC servers to only listen on one address. - Wayland sessions / greeters supported - Support ends July 2016 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/lightdm/attachments/20150914/6cc69069/attachment.html>