On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 09:07:37PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Petter Reinholdtsen 2013-06-08] > > I am not sure how to fix this in a sensible way, so I reverted the > > change to use gdm3 all over and set KDE to use kdm, Gnome to use > > gdm3 and LXDE and Xfce to use lightdm as we did before. Quite a lot > > of packages need to have their dependencies and recommends changed > > before we can try again to consolidate. > > I just discovered a problem with lightdm+xfce (probably also affect > lightdm+lxde). Logged in users are not registered in utmp, and thus > do not show up in 'who', and the killer package assume the processes > of the logged in user are left behind from some not logged in user and > throw out the user every hour. > > I believe kdm get it right. Not sure about gdm3.
gdm3 registers users in utemp. > Dropping the killer package will cause lots of left behind processes > to slowly cause the clients to become slower and slower, and thus do > not seem like a great alternative either. But making it impossible to > work for more than an hour is a killer. Any ideas? If bug #648604 isn't solved in time, gdm3 could be used with LXDE and Xfce; IMO gdm3 would fit better than kde concerning consitency. Wolfgang
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