Thomas Dodd wrote:
Paul Iadonisi wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 14:25, Kevin Worthington wrote:
>
>> 2. Why is there a pause between the bootup, and the graphical login
>> screen?
>> It seems like X kicks out, and then restarts. It seems a little
>> "un-refined",
>> for lack of better words.
>
> proposal is to have a '--hide-login-screen' (or whatever) option to gdm
> so that gdm can start X, but not start the greeter. Then, rhgb could
<...>
> easy answer to this with the current initscripts model (as well as other
> factors, I'm sure).
All of this avoids the real issue: rhgb is incredibly slow. It takes
this thing 6 seconds to appear and put up the panel that says what's
starting up in initscripts. And while it's thrashing, coming up, it's
impeding the startup of other services. It's ill-advised; you can go to
SVGA or the framebuffer faster and with less footprint to put up a blue
background and a newt panel...
Add to that the complaint that rhgb starts and X server, stops it, and
allows gdm to start another. If things remain as they are, rhgb should
start up X, do it's thing, then hand over responsibility of that X
server to gdm.
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