lightdm

An interesting part of Ubuntu's development cycles is how the bugs evolve into features (being fixed), especially with annoying bugs that appear in key areas of Ubuntu and "are born" just before the final release.

LightDM's Unity greeter has just been enriched with minor but eye-catching theming bits, continuing the Unity integration.

What is new in Unity greeter 0.2.1?

• the password area contains the word Password



• the session dialog (Ubuntu, Ubuntu 2D) features probably an initial theming consistent with the overall look

Weeks ago, the new LightDM has landed, bringing in Precise Pangolin shiny new features and an overall polish in the login experience.

One of the new introduced features is its default ability to display, at login, as a background, the user's desktop wallpaper, a fancy features for most of us, but, there are folks who prefer to keep their wallpaper only for them and not displayed prior to the password typing, blocking unwanted eyes (especially on multi-users computers).

One of the numerous Ubuntu's innovations is LightDM, a fancy interface that brings a high-quality login experience backed by accessibility features and indicators support.

The login experience is made available via a greeter, Unity greeter, which has just been updated to 0.2 version, transforming last-weeks' mockups into real code and adding consistent freshness:

Ubuntu 11.10 final will be available in less than one month and, it is this period of time, when everything must be fixed, completed and production machines-ready.

LightDM's Unity greeter has just received "missing pieces", transforming LightDM into an enjoyable full-fledged login experience:

Ubuntu 11.10's default display manager, LightDM, is definitely a piece of software with a great potential of customization, development and growth.

Robert Ancell, LightDM's creator, has just launched an awesome 3D greeter, Crowd greeter, which acts, looks and feels like a 3D character-based video game, and, basically, consist of a 3D model walking on your screen with your name on it.

Oneiric Ocelot's default display manager, LightDM, has "suffered" a new redesign weeks ago, receiving an Unity-like theming.

Just now, new updates have landed in Oneiric adding more fancy-ness and polish to LightDM (Unity Greeter), transforming the login screen into an enjoyable experience that clearly aims towards consistency (same colors, textures, transparency, icons as the overall Unity look and feel).

What is new in LightDM 0.9.3?

LightDM 0.9.3, Oneiric Ocelot's default display manager, has arrived to a point where one can just say "Woww".
After taking shape in the last weeks, just now, a new update brought Unity greeter (landed in Oneiric weeks ago, but not as default) as LightDM's default greeter with an awesome polished interface, which holds in the same time plenty of functionalities.

In the top-left corner we can see the computer's name

LightDM has just been updated to 0.9.2 version, starting to take a Unity-like shape.

LightDM, Oneiric's default display manager, has been updated to 0.4 version in both Oneiric and Natty Narwhal.

There are no major UI changes (LightDM is supposed to look shiny Unity-like), but only some optimizations.

If you want to keep up with the latest LightDM version and benefit from all the probably coming bling, you can install LightDM in Natty via its official PPA .