From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timothy Sample Subject: Re: GDM future work Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2019 10:10:36 -0500 Message-ID: <87muodzus3.fsf@ngyro.com> References: <87y387kl6v.fsf@ngyro.com> <87muoe242u.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggsout.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:39479 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ggA4e-0004h1-VB for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2019 10:10:49 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ggA4Z-0005FN-79 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2019 10:10:47 -0500 List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi Ludo, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > [...] > > Option #2 looks reasonable to me (for the reasons you wrote, =E2=80=9Csta= tic > binding=E2=80=9D and all.) Thanks for confirming my intuition. > > [...] > >> Besides this, there are few straight-forward things to do. We need to >> make a =E2=80=9Clibgdm=E2=80=9D package that does not depend on =E2=80= =9Cgnome-shell=E2=80=9D [1]. It >> would be nice to fill out the config record and get rid of the opaque >> configuration text file. We need documentation for GDM in the manual. >> Finally, I already miss the Guix logo from SLiM, so even if it is not >> the default, I would like a Guix theme to be available. :) >> >> I will chip away at these as I have time, but of course anyone is >> welcome to jump on them if I=E2=80=99m too slow. > > Cool, I=E2=80=99d be happy to test it, let us know when you=E2=80=99d lik= e to get test > feedback! It should be okay for testing as it is. It will not work unless =E2=80=9Cgnome-desktop-service=E2=80=9D is included in your services. It d= oes work with other window managers, but the session switching UI doesn=E2=80=99t seem to work. With a bit of fiddling, I got it to start EXWM, but I suspect it=E2=80=99s only because =E2=80=9Cexdm=E2=80=9D comes before =E2=80=9Cgnom= e=E2=80=9D when sorted. (For the record, I had to remove the =E2=80=9CTryExec=E2=80=9D key from its desktop = entry file.) Before testing, be sure you can roll-back your system from the bootloader just in case. ;) > Thanks for working on it! You=E2=80=99re welcome! -- Tim