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