loginx: A complete tty login experience, replacing getty, login, and xinit¹

Features a friendly curses UI with a username picker box. Acts as a display manager and launches X when .xinitrc exists. Handles failures and falls back to a plain shell if X does not start.

... part of T2, get it here

URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/loginx/

Author: Mike Sharov <msharov [at] users [dot] sourceforge [dot] net>
Maintainer: René Rebe <rene [at] exactco [dot] de>

License: ISC
Version: 1.5

Remark: Does cross compile (as setup and patched in T2).

Download: https://download.sourceforge.net/project/loginx/ loginx-1.5.tar.gz

T2 source: hotfix-ncursesw.patch
T2 source: loginx.cache
T2 source: loginx.desc

Build time (on reference hardware): 2% (relative to binutils)²

Installed size (on reference hardware): 0.04 MB, 13 files

Dependencies (build time detected): bash coreutils diffutils findutils gawk grep gzip linux-header make ncurses pam pkgconfig sed tar util-linux

Installed files (on reference hardware): [show]

¹) This page was automatically generated from the T2 package source. Corrections, such as dead links, URL changes or typos need to be performed directly on that source.

²) Compatible with Linux From Scratch's "Standard Build Unit" (SBU).