Examples (Arch Linux)

@myxogastria0808/tadaima includes four example greeters. On Arch-based distributions, you clone the repository and build them with AGS.

Available examples

Example	Description
minimal	No wallpaper, no styling, no CSS
simple	No wallpaper, Catppuccin Mocha styling
image	Static image wallpaper + Catppuccin Mocha
movie	Video wallpaper + GStreamer + Catppuccin Mocha

Prerequisites

pacman -S greetd cage
yay -S aylurs-gtk-shell

If you use the movie example (video wallpaper), also install GStreamer:

pacman -S gstreamer gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-bad gst-plugins-ugly gst-libav gstreamer-vaapi

Setup

1. Build

Clone the repository and build the movie example:

git clone https://github.com/Myxogastria0808/tadaima.git
cd tadaima/examples/movie
pnpm install
ags bundle src/app.tsx ./my-greeter

Replace movie with minimal, simple, or image to use a different example.

2. Install the greeter binary

sudo cp ./my-greeter /usr/local/bin/my-greeter

3. Configure greetd

Edit /etc/greetd/config.toml:

[terminal]
vt = 1

[default_session]
command = "dbus-run-session cage -s -d -- /usr/local/bin/my-greeter"
user = "greeter"

4. Setting a wallpaper (image / movie only)

If you chose minimal or simple, skip this step — they don’t use a wallpaper.

The image example expects /var/cache/tadaima/wallpaper.png. The movie example expects /var/cache/tadaima/wallpaper.mp4.

sudo cp /path/to/wallpaper.png /var/cache/tadaima/wallpaper.png
sudo chown greeter:greeter /var/cache/tadaima/wallpaper.png

5. Create cache directory and enable greetd

sudo mkdir -p /var/cache/tadaima
sudo chown greeter:greeter /var/cache/tadaima
sudo systemctl enable greetd

Reboot and you should see the example greeter on the login screen.