v0.4.0

Breaking changes

• The in-greeter PAM and fingerprint backends are gone. greetd already runs PAM, so all authentication now goes through greetd. For fingerprint login, add auth sufficient pam_fprintd.so to /etc/pam.d/greetd. Removed with them: the auth:* options and the $PAMFAIL, $PAMPROMPT, $FPRINTFAIL, $FPRINTPROMPT, $USER and $DESC label variables. The pam and sdbus-c++ dependencies are dropped too.
• general:debug_mode and general:debug_log_path are replaced by command-line flags. The flags take effect before the config is parsed, so config errors now reach the debug log:
  • -d / --debug (or HYPRLOGIN_DEBUG=1) turns on debug logging and logs to /var/cache/hyprlogin/debug.log.
  • --log-file <path> (or HYPRLOGIN_LOG_FILE) writes the log to a different file.
  • The environment variables can go in greetd's command, so you don't have to edit hyprland-greeter.lua.
• The greeter no longer runs with --verbose. It logged every frame into greetd's journal.

Removed options in an existing config are reported as config errors, and the greeter starts anyway.

New

• Remembers the last user and session, like tuigreet does. On by default: sessions:remember_user, sessions:remember_session and sessions:remember_dir. The cache directory is created by the package's tmpfiles.d entry.
• Nix flake with a package, an overlay and a NixOS module (programs.hyprlogin).

Fixes

• The password never appears in the debug log, and neither does its length.
• The debug log file is created with mode 0600 and doesn't follow symlinks. Lines are written unbuffered, so a crash doesn't lose them.
• XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP is set correctly for sessions with several DesktopNames (#17, thanks @prismaticbridge).
• Logging in before the session lock is active no longer leaves the greeter stuck (#15, thanks @manumuxoz).
• The binary is rebuilt against libhyprgraphics.so.5 (#16).
• A warning is logged when a background or image isn't readable by the greeter user.
• Fixed the exit_command syntax in the example config.
• Upstream hyprlock fixes: auth now starts only once the session lock is acquired (hyprwm/hyprlock#1091), and a failure message stays until the next key press (hyprwm/hyprlock#1084).

Prebuilt binary

Built on Arch Linux for x86_64, against hyprlang (.so.2), hyprutils (.so.13) and hyprgraphics (.so.5).

• hyprlogin-0.4.0-x86_64.tar.gz has the binary, the configs and the tmpfiles.d entry:

  sudo tar -xzf hyprlogin-0.4.0-x86_64.tar.gz -C /
  sudo systemd-tmpfiles --create hyprlogin.conf

• hyprlogin is the bare stripped binary.

SHA256SUMS has the checksums for both files.