From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: L p R n d n <guix@lprndn.info>
Cc: 35305@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#35305] LightDM service
Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 21:21:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878shz38bf.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zhahcfgh.fsf@lprndn.info>
L p R n d n <guix@lprndn.info> writes:
>> I built a VM and noticed that all icons are missing. Should the service
>> arrange for a certain fallback icon theme to be installed?
>
> If you only added (service-type lightdm-service-type) without any
> greeter, it's expected.
> LightDM without autologin needs a greeter. So in this case you just get
> a "fallback" session to avoid unnecesseraly breaking the user's
> system. I choose not to bring lightdm-gtk-greeter's assets to give the
> user a little push toward adding a greeter service.
Ah, now I understand the comment in lightdm-profile-service.
I think the default configuration should take care of all this. It
seems problematic to me that users specify “greeter-session” as a mere
string, but the corresponding greeter may not even be installed. That’s
also what’s bothering me about the greeter search directories.
Would it make sense to let “greeter-session” be a *package* instead of a
string? Then we could specify the lightdm-gtk-greeter package as the
default and use its output directory as the lookup directory for
greeters — instead of the global system profile.
I think this would be more elegant and reduce potential for
misconfiguration. What do you think about this?
> It's very arguable
> so if you think we should bring in assets too, let's do it. I can
> prepare a patch if you want.
What do you mean by assets? Which package provides them?
>> I also haven’t actually been able to log in as root with an empty
>> password, which is what the VM generates by default. Can this be
>> supported with lightdm?
>
> Didn't succeed either but it should be possible... :/
> Looking on the web, on passwordless login, the lightdm-autologin pam is
> often cited so this line:
>
> (pam-entry (control "required") (module "pam_succeed_if.so")
> (arguments (list "uid >= 1000")))
>
> might be related. But I'm really not knowledgeable enough on this matter
> to give a proper answer.
I can take a look at this and the other PAM questions you had.
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-10 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-17 14:24 [bug#35305] [WIP] LightDM service L p R n d n
2019-04-18 11:20 ` Jonathan Brielmaier
[not found] ` <handler.35305.B.155550391014002.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2019-04-18 13:20 ` [bug#35305] Acknowledgement ([WIP] LightDM service) L p R n d n
2019-04-18 16:03 ` L p R n d n
2019-08-26 15:58 ` L p R n d n
2020-03-15 21:50 ` Nicolò Balzarotti
2020-03-16 7:34 ` Efraim Flashner
2020-03-16 8:36 ` L p R n d n
2020-03-19 11:54 ` [bug#35305] LightDM service L p R n d n
2019-05-23 11:04 ` [bug#35305] [PATCH] " L p R n d n
2020-04-07 17:06 ` [bug#35305] " Brice Waegeneire
2020-04-09 16:02 ` L p R n d n
2020-04-12 9:53 ` Brice Waegeneire
2020-04-14 9:38 ` L p R n d n
2020-04-14 13:17 ` L p R n d n
2020-04-22 15:26 ` L p R n d n
2020-05-06 14:05 ` L p R n d n
2020-05-08 22:18 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-05-09 15:09 ` L p R n d n
2020-05-10 19:21 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2020-05-11 10:14 ` L p R n d n
2020-05-12 9:59 ` L p R n d n
2020-05-20 20:51 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-05-21 8:28 ` L p R n d n
2020-05-21 9:23 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-06-08 15:35 ` L p R n d n
2022-08-04 5:09 ` [bug#35305] [WIP] " Maxim Cournoyer
2020-06-19 14:47 ` [bug#35305] " L p R n d n
2022-08-04 2:19 ` [bug#35305] [WIP] " Maxim Cournoyer
2022-08-31 7:13 ` bug#35305: " Ricardo Wurmus
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=878shz38bf.fsf@elephly.net \
--to=rekado@elephly.net \
--cc=35305@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=guix@lprndn.info \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.