From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Catonano Subject: Re: GNOME on Wayland current status Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 14:15:32 +0100 Message-ID: References: <7dbd6d56e6335050bedb1ca55c9a4828@mykolab.com> <87k1x11pxh.fsf@gnu.org> <20180102134758.703830e5@mykolab.com> <87y3lewd1s.fsf@netris.org> <20180104083858.vr3xk7xcjzedn7ga@abyayala> <20180104114934.6e607fba@mykolab.com> <20180104124351.2mgjnv5bpxjfqthr@abyayala> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="f403043dcc5c70109f0561f320ac" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50427) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eX5Ms-0006Bt-Oz for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2018 08:15:38 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eX5Mr-0007jL-KJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2018 08:15:34 -0500 Received: from mail-yb0-x22d.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c09::22d]:36180) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eX5Mr-0007iR-FW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2018 08:15:33 -0500 Received: by mail-yb0-x22d.google.com with SMTP id j7so587976ybl.3 for ; Thu, 04 Jan 2018 05:15:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20180104124351.2mgjnv5bpxjfqthr@abyayala> 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: Rutger Helling , Mark H Weaver , guix-devel --f403043dcc5c70109f0561f320ac Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" 2018-01-04 13:43 GMT+01:00 ng0 : > Rutger Helling transcribed 4.7K bytes: > > Hi ng0, > > > > that might be a good idea. I was disturbed to learn that SLiM > > has seemingly been abandoned since 2013 > > (source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SLiM), so lightdm might > > be a good light-weight alternative as the default display manager. Do > > you know if the lightdm process itself can run on Wayland (like GDM)? > > No idea, I've never really used Wayland or Xwayland on any computer other > than my phones. I'd guess the Manual of lightdm would cover this. > This page says: "Supports different display technologies (X, Mir, Wayland ...)." https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LightDM/ On the Arch wiki there's also a paragraph about migrating from SLIM https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LightDM#Migrating_from_SLiM --f403043dcc5c70109f0561f320ac Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


2018-01-04 13:43 GMT+01:00 ng0 <ng0@n0.is>:
Rutger Helling transcribed 4.7K bytes:
> Hi ng0,
>
> that might be a good idea. I was disturbed to learn that SLiM
> has seemingly been abandoned since 2013
> (source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SLi= M), so lightdm might
> be a good light-weight alternative as the default display manager. Do<= br> > you know if the lightdm process itself can run on Wayland (like GDM)?<= br>
No idea, I've never really used Wayland or Xwayland on any compu= ter other
than my phones. I'd guess the Manual of lightdm would cover this.

This page says: "Supports different dis= play technologies (X, Mir, Wayland ...)."
https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Lig= htDM/

On the Arch wiki there's also a paragraph = about migrating from SLIM
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LightDM= #Migrating_from_SLiM
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