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I'd say we can happily provide a tool to configure +</I>>>><i> autologin, but if that is configured, it basically just sets the DM to +</I>>>><i> gdm, and lets' it do the autologin. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> The fact that gdm is used should be mostly hidden from users. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> From what I've seen, gdm seems to be the best implementation of the +</I>>>><i> whole pam and authentication stuff, so this would be my personal +</I>>>><i> favourite. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> Col +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Please note that autologin is lightweight and fast, so I use it for very old +</I>>><i> systems, where even the 30Mb of RAM eaten by gdm count. +</I>>><i> But I just can agree that if no one has time to fix it, we can drop it. I'll +</I>>><i> be away from computers for 15 days ... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Does GDM provide change of desktop as KDM does? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> My scenario: I have KDE and Gnome and Xfce installed. For system start +</I>><i> I have autologin set to start KDE. +</I> +I'm guessing you've configured this inside KDE tools rather than inside +the drak* tools? You'll see why I presume that below: + +><i> But when I am in a KDE session I +</I>><i> sometimes logout and use the upcoming KDM to start a Gnome or Xfce +</I>><i> session or even a session on a vt. +</I> +If you use the autologin package, if you logout, you log back in again +straight away (it's a hook inside prefdm which starts the display +manager and it simply runs autologin if it's configured!) + +Now I'd be tempted to make this a "one time operation" e.g. if autologin +works and exits, then we should write a flag somewhere to say "don't +autologin again" i.e. make it only work once. + +This would solve this problem. + +><i> Does this work with GDM as well? If so I'm all in. +</I> +Yeah, but keep in mind, we wouldn't be forcing users to use gdm all the +time anyway. What I'd propose (and this is for mga3 remember), is that +if autologin was configured, we'd simply make gdm kick in and process +that autologin. + +If autologin is not configured, or the user has already logged in and +has now logged out, we would just dump you to your chosen DM (i.e. KDM). + +So we'd only be using GDM as a tool here, not really for it's GUI +specifically. That said, we may have to ensure that when we use gdm in +this way that it exits after the user session rather than reverting back +to it's login screen, allowing the prefdm process to be automatically +restarted and thus giving you your chosen DM. + +Anyway, this can be discussed in more depth after mga2 is out the door :) + +Col + + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +colin(at)mageia.org +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> + PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> + Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="013992.html">[Mageia-dev] A note on autologin and startx +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="014021.html">[Mageia-dev] A note on autologin and startx +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#14016">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#14016">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#14016">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#14016">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |