select_user_hint is empty

Asked by Surlykke

Hi

I'm working on a greeter for LightDM (razor-lightdm-greeter). I access LightDM through the lightdm-qt-2 library. The property selectUserHint of QLightDM::Greeter is allways the empty string. (I can see from the code that it calls the function lightdm_greeter_get_select_user_hint in liblightdm-gobject/lightdm/greeter.h). I'm not sure what selectUser is suppose to hold. Some googling suggest it should be the last user logged in. There seems also to have been a property 'default-user' in lightdm.conf, but that is no longer honored.

What should selectUserHint hold? And is it being empty a sign that my system is messed up?

I'm on Arch, running lightdm 1.5.0. Also I'm running systemd, so AccountService is in play.

br. Chr.

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Best Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) said :
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selectUserHint is set by the daemon in cases where it is important that the greeter show a particular user. One case is when switching user sessions if authentication is required a greeter will be started with that user being authenticated.

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Surlykke (christian-surlykke) said :
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Thanks Robert Ancell, that solved my question.