A minimal login greeter for greetd that matches the look and feel of Noctalia Shell.
Noctalia Greeter is the screen you see before your desktop session starts. It lets you pick a user, enter your password, choose a Wayland session, and pick a color scheme - with the same visual language as Noctalia. A configurable clock uses Noctalia-compatible time/date formats, separate time and date font sizes, and the active greeter palette.
Long session and color scheme menus fit within the screen and show a scrollbar. Use the mouse wheel, drag the scrollbar, or navigate with the arrow keys; see keyboard and cursor controls.
It is built for greetd: greetd launches noctalia-greeter-session, which starts the bundled wlroots compositor and runs the greeter inside that session.
Pair it with Noctalia v5 if you want wallpaper and palette synced from the shell settings (optional).
Follow the installation guide for distribution packages, NixOS, greetd configuration, and a safe handoff from another display manager. If no package is available, use the separate source-build guide, then return to the main installation flow.
After installation:
Noctalia Greeter is a display/login greeter for greetd. It handles user/session selection and authentication UI.
It is not a desktop shell or compositor replacement.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for contributor guidance.
Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.
Bundled Wuffs code is available under Apache-2.0 or MIT. See packaging notes for its license notices.