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 -