About qingy
What is qingy?
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qingy is a replacement for getty.
Written in C, it uses DirectFB to provide a fast, nice GUI
without the overhead of the X Windows System.
It allows the user to log in and start the session of his choice
(text console, gnome, kde, wmaker, ...). |
Main features
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It works ;-)
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It remembers last user who logged in, with focus on password
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It also rememebers last session each user chose
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Alternatively it remembers last session on a per-tty basis
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Fully themable
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A theme will look the same on all machines, independently of the resolution (*)
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You can select your favourite theme, or a random one every time
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Both text and X sessions are supported
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You can start more that one X session at once
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You can even start X inside a console when X sessions are already running
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PAM support
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Support for screen savers
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Auto log-in support
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Session locking support
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Session timeout, with lock or logout as available actions
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tty specific options support
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Customizable key bindings
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Text mode support (**)
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Provided it has ben converted to the structure of qingy 0.6.0 and higher, which adds the ability
to specify the native resolution of the theme, instead of defaulting to 800x600...
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Useful if you don't care about fancy graphics but do care about session choice, locking, timeout or auto log-in.
Bugs (in current version)
If you think you have found a bug please e-mail me and I'll do what I can to fix it.
If you think you have found a bug please e-mail me and I'll do what I can to fix it.
TODO
Improvements
Improvements (GUI)
Documentation
Other enhancements
Anybody would like to help? Feel free to contact me.
Improvements
| - | Some command line options should migrate to config file... |
Improvements (GUI)
| - | Make applets possible... A mix of shared modules and window managing :P Maybe we could even port wmaker dockapps... just a dream of mine ;-) |
| - | Make it possible to use e.g. mng files for animated images, for example for background and the like. |
| - | Add a timeout (with fading) to the mouseover effect |
| - | graphical configuration tool... |
| - | Add support for a Win XP style login box... |
| - | Add an option in theme file to select whether background image should be centered, scaled or tiled... |
| - | Add support for multiline text labels... |
| - | allow for linkings elements together, so that when you move your mouse over one of them, all get the mouseover effect... |
Documentation
| - | Update ALL documentation as it is severely outdated |
Other enhancements
| - | Allow for fingerprint-based authentication with PAM |
| - | Make it possible to limit session choice based on user |
| - | Allow user to log into remote systems, also with xdmcp... |
| - | support some graphics toolkits other than DirectFB |
| - | support also the /dev/vc* in spite of /dev/tty* |
| - | Add support for setting the LANG enviroment variable... |
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Add an option to force user to select on a given list of allowed users on gived ttys... |
| - | Make qingy really start on one tty and fake its presence on the others... this would reduce memory usage, making it seem quicker at the same time. |
| - | Add drop down menu to chose between available X screen/resolutions... |
Anybody would like to help? Feel free to contact me.
Thanks
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Davide Scola who taught me how to learn C.
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Per Liden and Largo for
Login.app.
This is where I got the idea for this app. And some graphics elements, too.
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All the guys that gave light to
DirectFB.
Great work!
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Paolino who gave
light, amongst other things, to the great
config file parser we now have
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All of the guys who wrote and distributed themes for qingy...
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Others I'm forgetting to mention!
