lightdm-set-defaults is undocumented in lightdm man page

I agree that it needs a manpage and also that many people use the tool and it should be linked to /usr/bin. I'll work on it.

It would be very, very useful to have a manual page for lightdm.conf(5) made. Currently there seems to be no single place where the options are documented. There are a few howtos floating around with individual tricks, but a complete overview of the configuration options is needed to really make lightdm fully useful.

Matt, the man page will be a lot of work and take a while to complete. Would it be possible to use this file as the default lightdm.conf?

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~lightdm-team/lightdm/trunk/view/head:/data/lightdm.conf

That or a variation of it would be very helpful and east to deploy.

Lars,

I think there's already a bug for lightdm.conf needing a manpage:

#883189 Need better(-located) documentation on lightdm.conf

You might make your other suggestion there also.

This is not a duplicate of #883189, please do not mark it as such.

Sorry about that "update", I was just browsing this bug-report and did not actually change anything - so the description is as it originally was.

One question though; now that fix has been committed , when can I expect it to arrive at Ubuntu 12.04 repositories and to get published? The bug description (or the title) does not have any milestone, so does this mean that the fix has not been scheduled at all for 12.04 and 12.10? In which way is the Ubuntu bug release schedule determined, in general?

Thanks for any information.. and kudos to developers for fixing this bug..

Hi Jukka,

Fixes for manpages are generally not considered severe enough to be worth porting back to a LTS like 12.04. Since I fixed this in November (after 12.10), it will be in 13.04, the release that comes out in a couple months. I believe that lightdm-set-defaults is fairly self-documenting, just run it without arguments if you're on an older version.

Hi Matt,

thanks for the explanation. In case of lightdm-set-defaults, the CLI usage shows the available options (after you find the command in /usr/lib/lightdm -path ..).

This still does not solve the missing documentation for the lightdm.conf conguratoon file. Therefore I added the Ubuntu 12.04 precise-backports to that bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/precise-backports/+bug/883189), in hopes of getting the fix there delivered to current LTS version (12.04).

This bug was fixed in the package lightdm - 1.5.1-0ubuntu1

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lightdm (1.5.1-0ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    [ 1.5.0 ]
    - Add man page for lightdm-set-defaults (LP: #1044485)
    - Use xzip for distribution, don't distribute old metadata
    - Correctly check if display is active when session quits
    - Relicense liblightdm to LGPL-2/LGPL-3 so GPL-2 code can link against it
    - Selectively lock memory rather than calling mlockall for main daemon
    [ 1.5.1 ]
    - QLightDM: Add Qt5 version of the library: liblightdm-qt5-2 (LP: #1117355)
    - QLightDM: Add some missing role names in UsersModel
    - QLightDM: Add a backgroundPath role to UsersModel
    - QLightDM: Fix potential crash in QLightDM::UsersModel closedown.
    - Improve guest session apparmor
    - Run each test in its own /tmp dir so they can't interfere with eachother
    - Fix script hooks no longer working with latest glib (LP: #1128474)
    - Fix display clean up code
  * debian/control:
    - Use standards version 3.9.4
    - Drop bzr branch
    - Build-depend on qtbase5-dev
    - Add new Qt 5 packages
  * debian/patches/08_lp1059510.patch:
  * debian/patches/09_lp577919-fix-chromium-launch.patch:
  * debian/patches/10_selective_mlock.patch:
  * debian/patches/11_runtime_dir_access.patch:
     - Applied upstream
  * debian/source/format:
    - Use 3.0
 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:06:52 +1300