From: "Alex Griffin" <a@ajgrf.com>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GDM update!
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:43:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e6bd0e4-ecea-47a6-8eb7-40caa786b1bd@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875ztrp982.fsf@gnu.org>
On Mon, Feb 11, 2019, at 1:55 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> 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.
According to Hans de Goede's talk[1] at FOSDEM (around 27:00), GDM is currently the only option for running Xorg without root privileges. If true, that's a very compelling reason to default to GDM.
--
Alex Griffin
[1]: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/flickerfree/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-11 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-10 22:30 GDM update! Ludovic Courtès
2019-02-11 13:30 ` Marco van Hulten
2019-02-11 14:39 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-02-11 15:31 ` Timothy Sample
2019-02-12 14:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-02-12 15:39 ` Timothy Sample
2019-02-12 16:11 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-02-12 19:04 ` Timothy Sample
2019-02-11 14:43 ` Alex Griffin [this message]
2019-02-11 15:12 ` Timothy Sample
2019-02-12 14:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
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