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feat: apply cursor theme via GtkSettings instead of XCURSOR_THEME env (v0.9.0)
GTK4 under greetd does not honour XCURSOR_THEME reliably — the env-prefix
hack in /etc/greetd/config.toml only reached the wlroots pointer in cage,
while GTK widgets kept using the default fallback cursor. Mirror the
existing gtk-theme handling: new cursor-theme + cursor-size fields in the
[appearance] section, applied via gtk::Settings::set_gtk_cursor_theme_*.
Keeps the fix scoped to the greeter, no system-wide GTK config changes.
2026-04-24 08:56:41 +02:00

Moongreet

A greetd greeter for Wayland, built with Rust + GTK4 + gtk4-layer-shell. Part of the Moonarch ecosystem.

Features

  • greetd IPC — Communicates via $GREETD_SOCK (length-prefixed JSON)
  • User list — Parsed from /etc/passwd (UID 100065533)
  • Avatars — AccountsService icons, ~/.face fallback, default SVG with theme tinting
  • Sessions — Discovered from /usr/share/wayland-sessions/ and /usr/share/xsessions/
  • Last user/session — Remembered in /var/cache/moongreet/
  • Power actions — Reboot / Shutdown via loginctl
  • Layer Shell — Fullscreen via gtk4-layer-shell (TOP layer)
  • Multi-monitor + hotplug — Login UI on the built-in display, wallpaper-only on other monitors; hotplugged monitors get wallpaper windows automatically
  • GPU blur — Background blur via GskBlurNode (shared cache across monitors)
  • i18n — German and English (auto-detected from system locale)
  • Faillock warning — Warns after 2 failed attempts, locked message after 3
  • Fingerprint — fprintd support via greetd multi-stage PAM (configurable)
  • Journal loggingjournalctl -t moongreet, debug level via MOONGREET_DEBUG env var
  • Password wiping — Zeroize on drop

Requirements

  • GTK 4
  • gtk4-layer-shell (for Wayland fullscreen)
  • greetd

Building

cargo build --release

Installation

# Install binary
sudo install -Dm755 target/release/moongreet /usr/bin/moongreet

# Install config
sudo mkdir -p /etc/moongreet
sudo cp config/moongreet.toml /etc/moongreet/moongreet.toml

System Setup

  1. Edit /etc/moongreet/moongreet.toml — set an absolute path for the wallpaper.

  2. Create cache directory:

    sudo mkdir -p /var/cache/moongreet/last-session
    sudo chown greeter:greeter /var/cache/moongreet
    
  3. Configure greetd (/etc/greetd/config.toml):

    [default_session]
    command = "niri -c /etc/greetd/niri-greeter.kdl"
    user = "greeter"
    
  4. Install the polkit rule so the greeter user can reboot / power off:

    sudo install -Dm644 config/polkit/50-moongreet-power.rules \
        /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/50-moongreet-power.rules
    

    Without this rule, loginctl reboot / loginctl poweroff fail because greetd's greeter session is inactive in logind.

Development

# Run tests
cargo test

# Build release
cargo build --release

# Run locally (without greetd, disables layer-shell)
MOONGREET_NO_LAYER_SHELL=1 ./target/release/moongreet

License

MIT

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