Re: GDM update!

[Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org>]

Ludovic et al—

On 10 Feb 23:30 Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> I’m happy to report that GDM basically works, including choosing among X
> session… and it has a neat Guix theme!
> [...] 
> 
> The one thing I didn’t get to work is ~/.xsession support.  Any ideas?
> 
> I’d real like to get that fixed and then we can finally replace SLiM
> with GDM as the default.
> 
> BTW, at the Guix Days, there were discussions about defaulting to
> LightDM instead of GDM.  I forgot to mention then that using LightDM
> wouldn’t solve the GNOME use case; in particular, closing the lid under
> GNOME wouldn’t lock the screen, and clicking the lock button wouldn’t
> have any effect, which is pretty bad.

I have had problems (on different GNU distro's and OpenBSD) with at
least SLiM, GDM and LightDM, ranging from usability ("Do I press Tab or
Enter now?") to forgettability ("I didn't order GNOME!") to not
using .xsession.

Now I tend to use XDM where I can.  For me it is always working as
expected in all the above respects.

—Marco