From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Alex Griffin" Subject: Re: GDM update! Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:43:15 -0500 Message-ID: <3e6bd0e4-ecea-47a6-8eb7-40caa786b1bd@www.fastmail.com> References: <875ztrp982.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:44067) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtCog-0000os-Hv for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:44:15 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtCof-000873-5x for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:44:14 -0500 Received: from wout2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([64.147.123.25]:48243) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtCoe-0007zL-IY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:44:12 -0500 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.west.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED20230BB for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:44:07 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <875ztrp982.fsf@gnu.org> 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: guix-devel@gnu.org On Mon, Feb 11, 2019, at 1:55 AM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s 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=E2=80=99t solve the GNOME use case; in particular, closing the = lid under > GNOME wouldn=E2=80=99t lock the screen, and clicking the lock button w= ouldn=E2=80=99t > have any effect, which is pretty bad. According to Hans de Goede's talk[1] at FOSDEM (around 27:00), GDM is cu= rrently the only option for running Xorg without root privileges. If tru= e, that's a very compelling reason to default to GDM. --=20 Alex Griffin [1]: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/flickerfree/