On 03/23/2011 07:12 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 23.03.2011, 16:45 +0000 schrieb Nathan Thomas:
>
>> I've included some of the highlights of Xfce 4.8, but I was wondering
>> if a decision has been made about the display manager for the Xfce
>> Spin? As far as I understand it, GDM seems to have disqualified
>> itself,
>
> GDM *should* work again, however we haven't tried.
GDM is what I use on F15-alpha and it "works" for the very little I need
from it ... apart from the funny little glitches like throwing you out
of your session if you add/modify any user account data such as using
useradd/usermod/userdel.
>> SLiM is unmaintained,
>
> sad but true
>
>> LXDM didn't seem to score many votes,
>
> in fact people don't seem to have a problem with it, but I have:
> * no timed login
> * no keyboard selection
> * no polkit aware, you can shutdown while a user is logged in
>
> The funny thing is, that GDM used to support all of the above, but no
> longer does. This being said the only difference is that GDM supports
> fast user switching.
>
>> and lightdm was mentioned but is still in the process of being
>> packaged.
>
> it is packaged but doesn't work with out prefdm script because the
> script adds a "--nodaemon" parameter that lightdm doesn't like and
> therefore quits.
>
> I think we cannot yet make a final decision, I'd like to hear some
> opinions first.
Well, for me the timed login, keyboard selection etc aren't issues at
all. However I can easily see them being highly important for others.
Looking through the gdm bugzilla items, there's preciously little
comments about eg keyboard selection related bugs (there are more than a
couple). Dunno... GDM used to be nice, feature-rich and configurable but
it seems over time all of that (or at least the documentation how to do
it if still possible) has been flushed down the drain :-/
- Panu -
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