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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GDM future work
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 22:40:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d0p51pdx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87muodzus3.fsf@ngyro.com> (Timothy Sample's message of "Sun, 06 Jan 2019 10:10:36 -0500")

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Hello Timothy!

Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com> skribis:

> It should be okay for testing as it is.  It will not work unless
> “gnome-desktop-service” is included in your services.  It does work with
> other window managers, but the session switching UI doesn’t seem to
> work.  With a bit of fiddling, I got it to start EXWM, but I suspect
> it’s only because “exdm” comes before “gnome” when sorted.  (For the
> record, I had to remove the “TryExec” key from its desktop entry file.)

I tested in ‘guix system vm’ on ‘master’.  The welcome screen is fairly
gray (do you know how we can change the background image?); it does show
the list of users, specifically those that have a proper password set:


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Logging into GNOME works and screen locking works as well.

I didn’t find a way to select a session other than GNOME, though.
How’s that supposed to work?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-01-09 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-30 16:56 GDM future work Timothy Sample
2019-01-05 21:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-06 15:10   ` Timothy Sample
2019-01-09 15:17     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-01-09 21:40     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-01-09 22:32       ` Timothy Sample
2019-01-10  0:15         ` Catonano

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