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Re: GDM future work
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Timothy Sample |
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Re: GDM future work |
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Sun, 06 Jan 2019 10:10:36 -0500 |
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Hi Ludo,
Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
> [...]
>
> Option #2 looks reasonable to me (for the reasons you wrote, “static
> binding” and all.)
Thanks for confirming my intuition.
>
> [...]
>
>> Besides this, there are few straight-forward things to do. We need to
>> make a “libgdm” package that does not depend on “gnome-shell” [1]. It
>> would be nice to fill out the config record and get rid of the opaque
>> configuration text file. We need documentation for GDM in the manual.
>> Finally, I already miss the Guix logo from SLiM, so even if it is not
>> the default, I would like a Guix theme to be available. :)
>>
>> I will chip away at these as I have time, but of course anyone is
>> welcome to jump on them if I’m too slow.
>
> Cool, I’d be happy to test it, let us know when you’d like to get test
> feedback!
It should be okay for testing as it is. It will not work unless
“gnome-desktop-service” is included in your services. It does work with
other window managers, but the session switching UI doesn’t seem to
work. With a bit of fiddling, I got it to start EXWM, but I suspect
it’s only because “exdm” comes before “gnome” when sorted. (For the
record, I had to remove the “TryExec” key from its desktop entry file.)
Before testing, be sure you can roll-back your system from the
bootloader just in case. ;)
> Thanks for working on it!
You’re welcome!
-- Tim