Devuan bug report logs - #408
lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings modifies lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf-devuan-cinnabar

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Package: lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings; Maintainer for lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings is (unknown); Source for lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings is src:lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings.

Reported by: Joril <jorilx@gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 14:18:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 1.2.2-2

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From: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
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Cc: Joril <jorilx@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings modifies
 lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf-devuan-cinnabar
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Joril,

On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:04:19 +0100 Joril <jorilx@gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem is that (at least under Devuan Beowulf)
> /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf
> is a symlink to
> /etc/alternatives/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf
> which in turn is a symlink to
> /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf-devuan-cinnabar
> 
> So you end up losing the original lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf-devuan-cinnabar.

I am not sure what you expect ot happen here?

If you edit the settings with this tool, files in /etc/lightdm will be
changed. If you need to restore, you can always reinstall.

Or am I missing something or misunderstanding you?

Mark

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