On Thu, 12 May 2011 15:43:54 +0100 Frank Murphy <frankly3d(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Came across this on the devel user list: > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-May/151382.html > > Would it be suitable for xFce? > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LightDM It's possible. Someone needs to package it up and we need to evaluate it. I was going to suggest we move to lxdm right now for f16 and try and solve or fix issues so it's acceptable for us. If this other thing works better great.

On Fri, 13 May 2011 21:07:55 -0600 Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Thu, 12 May 2011 15:43:54 +0100 > Frank Murphy <frankly3d(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > > Came across this on the devel user list: > > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-May/151382.html > > > > Would it be suitable for xFce? > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LightDM > > It's possible. > > Someone needs to package it up and we need to evaluate it. > > I was going to suggest we move to lxdm right now for f16 and try and > solve or fix issues so it's acceptable for us. If this other thing > works better great. I just did a package, but I get authentication failures, when trying to log in... Don't know yet why... :(

But except that, the login screen looks ok (better than lxdm).

> Am Samstag, den 14.05.2011, 12:37 +0200 schrieb Thomas Spura: >> I just did a package, but I get authentication failures, when >> trying to log in... Don't know yet why... :( > > Most likely PAM. Try copying GDM's PAM file. > >> But except that, the login screen looks ok (better than lxdm). > > Did you try the webkit greeter? Both greeeters require a lot of > tweaking for Fedora because the fonts/themes/icon all are Ubuntu. > Ubuntu is even hardcoded several times. > > I have packaged it already and I can login, however it doesn't start > on Fedora< 15 because it is not compatible with the prefdm script > there. On F15 you can create a custom systemd service and then it > works. Currently, I also have not much time to further dig into this, so I'll wait for your package :) > I will submit it for review when I find the time. Can you upload it to fedorapeople, please? Let me know, when you have the review request and I'll review it (unless someone else is faster ;)).