2012/4/8 Colin Guthrie <mag...@colin.guthr.ie>: > 'Twas brillig, and Wolfgang Bornath at 07/04/12 08:50 did gyre and gimble: >> 2012/4/7 Jose Jorge <lists.jjo...@free.fr>: >>> Le 06/04/2012 22:53, Colin Guthrie a écrit : >>> >>>> Couldn't agree more. I'd say we can happily provide a tool to configure >>>> autologin, but if that is configured, it basically just sets the DM to >>>> gdm, and lets' it do the autologin. >>>> >>>> The fact that gdm is used should be mostly hidden from users. >>>> >>>>> From what I've seen, gdm seems to be the best implementation of the >>>> whole pam and authentication stuff, so this would be my personal >>>> favourite. >>>> >>>> Col >>> >>> Please note that autologin is lightweight and fast, so I use it for very old >>> systems, where even the 30Mb of RAM eaten by gdm count. >>> But I just can agree that if no one has time to fix it, we can drop it. I'll >>> be away from computers for 15 days ... >> >> Does GDM provide change of desktop as KDM does? >> >> My scenario: I have KDE and Gnome and Xfce installed. For system start >> I have autologin set to start KDE. > > I'm guessing you've configured this inside KDE tools rather than inside > the drak* tools? You'll see why I presume that below:
No, I always use the draktools for system configuration. I am one of those who would like to differ between system configuration and desktop configuration. >> But when I am in a KDE session I >> sometimes logout and use the upcoming KDM to start a Gnome or Xfce >> session or even a session on a vt. > > If you use the autologin package, if you logout, you log back in again > straight away (it's a hook inside prefdm which starts the display > manager and it simply runs autologin if it's configured!) > > Now I'd be tempted to make this a "one time operation" e.g. if autologin > works and exits, then we should write a flag somewhere to say "don't > autologin again" i.e. make it only work once. > > This would solve this problem. Yes. That's what I want. I have autologin for the first start. If I log out it is mostly to change desktop or change user, so I can not use autologin for that. >> Does this work with GDM as well? If so I'm all in. > > Yeah, but keep in mind, we wouldn't be forcing users to use gdm all the > time anyway. What I'd propose (and this is for mga3 remember), is that > if autologin was configured, we'd simply make gdm kick in and process > that autologin. > > If autologin is not configured, or the user has already logged in and > has now logged out, we would just dump you to your chosen DM (i.e. KDM). Good. > So we'd only be using GDM as a tool here, not really for it's GUI > specifically. That said, we may have to ensure that when we use gdm in > this way that it exits after the user session rather than reverting back > to it's login screen, allowing the prefdm process to be automatically > restarted and thus giving you your chosen DM. > > Anyway, this can be discussed in more depth after mga2 is out the door :) Yes, I was not aware of this being a mga3 plan. -- wobo