What is qingy?
Here’s the quote from qingy developers Quote: qingy is a replacement for 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, …).
Source :- http://qingy.sourceforge.net
Features:-
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
I came across qingy while browsing gentoo-wiki
Here is the gentoo-wiki qingy guide
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