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Subject: Re: GDM update!
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:43:15 -0500
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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/