Re: Ubuntu Desktop transition from LightDM to GDM

2017-06-26 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
On 2017-06-26 15:55, Phil Susi wrote: One down side of gdm vs lightdm is that it does not support guest logins. Will this be added to gdm, or are we just going to lose the feature? There is a plan to add it, but probably not before 18.04.

Re: Ubuntu Desktop transition from LightDM to GDM

2017-06-23 Thread Iain Lane
On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 01:30:16PM +0500, Khurshid Alam wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 11:52 PM, Ken VanDine > wrote: > > The initial plan was to drop the current prompt when configuring the > > package to select which DM to use by default and just switch

Re: Ubuntu Desktop transition from LightDM to GDM

2017-06-23 Thread Iain Lane
On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 07:59:54AM +0200, Didier Roche wrote: > My heuristic would be for avoiding the prompt: > - ubuntu-session installed I guess this could actually be in the postinst of ubuntu-session itself if we make sure that it is configured before gdm3 (e.g. by Depends: ubuntu-session ←

Re: Ubuntu Desktop transition from LightDM to GDM

2017-06-23 Thread Khurshid Alam
Hi, On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 11:52 PM, Ken VanDine wrote: The initial plan was to drop the current prompt when configuring the package to select which DM to use by default and just switch current lightdm users to gdm3. If the prompt is removed how user will make

Re: Ubuntu Desktop transition from LightDM to GDM

2017-06-23 Thread Didier Roche
Le 22/06/2017 à 20:22, Ken VanDine a écrit : Ubuntu Desktop will be switching from LightDM to GDM for 17.10. I'm working on handling that transition and trying to sort out the best solution for upgraders that won't negatively impact other flavors. The initial plan was to drop the current

Ubuntu Desktop transition from LightDM to GDM

2017-06-22 Thread Ken VanDine
Ubuntu Desktop will be switching from LightDM to GDM for 17.10. I'm working on handling that transition and trying to sort out the best solution for upgraders that won't negatively impact other flavors. The initial plan was to drop the current prompt when configuring the package to select which