xapp VS slick-greeter

libxapp

This situation isn't so much about the fact that Flatpak and Flathub are GNOME-backed. All of the KDE core apps are in there too, and so are all of the Pantheon core apps. But none of the other GTK environments have bought into Flatpak and/or Flathub. I asked the xapps (MATE core apps) people about it and their response was kinda wishy-washy. They might be more receptive if Flathub submissions for Pluma, Atril, etc, get made for them. I don't know if XFCE people would want to get Mousepad, Ristretto, etc onto Flathub.

I wrote more details at https://github.com/linuxmint/xapp/issues/143

The Linux Mint project is sponsoring a series of "traditional" Gtk desktop accessory apps: text editor, image viewer etc. It calls them the XApps. The idea is that instead of MATE, Cinnamon and Xfce all maintaining their own forks of the GNOME 2 accessories, there is one shared set. I tried the Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix and to my very great surprise, it doesn't use them; it just uses the GNOME versions, with CSD, no menu bars, etc.

For example, do I start off with a 'git clone https://github.com/linuxmint/slick-greeter.git' ?

No, that looks like a bug. There are some outstanding issues for individual options (e.g. https://github.com/linuxmint/slick-greeter/issues/173), but nothing like this. Hard to say here what might cause that (maybe you're using TouchPad tap-to-click and it doesn't work there?) but you'd be welcome to make a new issue on the slick-greeter repo about this.

While I can't speak for how this information could be abused on platforms like mobile, the APIs used for battery reporting (amongst other things) is done via UPower. What you are seeing here is some weird reporting by slick-greeter (not developed by Solus) on the battery percentage level.

Seems more like a bug than anything. Should be reported at https://github.com/linuxmint/slick-greeter/

The login screen however uses slick-greeter and lightdm. It has its own configuration system and can be set by installing lightdm-settings and running sudo lightdm-settings, alternatively manually making a file and setting up a conf, which can be seen at the bottom of https://github.com/linuxmint/slick-greeter

Solus uses slick-greeter for Budgie, I am not aware of any option like that. Check the project page here, maybe someone discussed it: https://github.com/linuxmint/slick-greeter

Turns out that i have to edit the slick-greeter config file but as shown here on GitHub i don't have the option to a start-up script. I will have to change to the normal lightdm greeter in order to work