From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timothy Sample Subject: Re: GDM update! Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 14:04:01 -0500 Message-ID: <87mun0akwu.fsf@ngyro.com> References: <875ztrp982.fsf@gnu.org> <20190211153946.2a38a740@scratchpost.org> <87y36mbav3.fsf@ngyro.com> <87r2cdksc6.fsf@gnu.org> <87va1p9fsn.fsf@ngyro.com> <87tvh9yokm.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:54539) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtdaQ-0002Kw-DL for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2019 14:19:19 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtdLi-0007gX-Ln for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2019 14:04:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87tvh9yokm.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Tue, 12 Feb 2019 17:11:05 +0100") 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: Pierre Neidhardt Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi Pierre, Pierre Neidhardt writes: > While supporting Xsession and xinitrc is important for backward compatibi= lity, > Guix could also have its own way with shepherd user services (see the rec= ent > discussion on Guix-devel), which would supersede most "initialization dot= files". I agree, but we discussed this before and thought that it was too much of a leap for right now. Once we have session shepherd instances, we could consider replacing the whole of =E2=80=9Cgdm-x-session=E2=80=9D with = launching a session shepherd that would in-turn launch D-Bus and X and whatever else. That will be great, but it will take a lot longer. In the meantime, we might as well get GDM working the old way. -- Tim