/usr/share/doc/qingy/README is in qingy 0.9.7-2.
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Qingy Is Not GettY
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| What is qingy? |
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qingy is a replacement of getty.
Written in C, it uses DirectFB to provide a fast, nice GUI
without the overhead of the X Windows System.
It allows the user to log in and start the session of his choice
(text console, gnome, kde, wmaker, ...).
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| Features |
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- It works ;-)
- It remembers last user who logged in, with focus on password
- It also rememebers last session each user chose
- Alternatively it remembers last session on a per-tty basis
- Fully themable
- A theme will look the same on all machines, independently of the resolution (*)
- You can select your favourite theme, or a random one every time
- Both text and X sessions are supported
- You can start more that one X session at once
- You can even start X inside a console when X sessions are already running
- PAM support
- Support for screen savers
- Auto log-in support
- Session locking support
- Session timeout, with lock or logout as available actions
- tty specific options support
- Customizable key bindings
- Text mode support (**)
(*) Provided it has ben converted to the structure of qingy 0.6.0 and higher,
which adds the ability to specify the native resolution of the theme,
instead of defaulting to 800x600...
(**) Useful if you don't care about fancy graphics but *do* care about
session choice, locking, timeout or auto log-in.
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| Usage |
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- Use <TAB> to jump to the next section
- Use <SHIFT-TAB> to jump to the previous section
- You can also use your mouse and click a section
- Type as you always did in previous life ;-) (*)
- Use <UP> and <DOWN> arrows to browse sessions
- Click on <POWER> and <RESET> buttons and you will,
respectively, poweroff and reboot
- The above can also be obtained via <ALT-P> and <ALT-R>
- Press <ENTER> to log in
- Press <CTRL-ESC> to deactivate DirectFB and get a text login
- Press <ALT-Fn> (or <CTRL-ALT-Fn>) to switch to the nth tty(**)
- If you log into, say, WindowMaker, and then change VT,
WM will wait for you to switch back to the previous VT
(*) you can use all the usual <LEFT>, <RIGHT>, <HOME>,
<END>, <DEL>, <BACKSPACE> keys to edit your text
(**) there is no need to enable VT switching in DirectFDB
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|Program Options |
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Output of 'qingy -h':
qingy version 0.9.0
usage: ginqy <ttyname> [options]
Options:
-t, --text-mode
Perform a text-mode login prompt (no graphics).
-f <device>, --fb-device <device>
Use <device> as framebuffer device.
-p, --hide-password
Do not show password asterisks.
-l, --hide-lastuser
Do not display last user name.
-d, --disable-lastuser
Do not remember last user name.
-n, --no-shutdown-screen
Close DirectFB mode before shutting down.
This way you will see system shutdown messages.
-s <timeout>, --screensaver <timeout>
Activate screensaver after <timeout> minutes (default is 5).
A value of 0 disables screensaver completely.
-r <xres>x<yres>, --resolution <xres>x<yres>
Do not detect framebuffer resolution, use this one instead.
-h, --help
Print this help message.
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| Configuration |
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qingy puts all its configuration files in /etc/qingy.
There you will find the configuration file (settings),
that you can tweak as you need/like.
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| More details |
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Qingy comes with extensive documentation in the form of TeXinfo
documents (the GNU standard documentation method). Just type `info
qingy` from a shell to browse it. It is quite outdated now, but
still useful...
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