[Mageia-dev] A note on autologin and startx

Fri Apr 6 22:53:09 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Olav Vitters at 06/04/12 21:10 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 05:14:04PM +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+>> Overall, however, the autologin code is pretty broken. I *should*
+>> register a graphical login after starting X (the same way gdm does it),
+>> that way it will remain active and there won't be vt switch related issues.
+> 
+> IMO (and take into account + as said many times before, I almost only
+> care about GNOME), drop it (Mageia 3?).
+> 
+> Within GNOME you can configure the GDM autologin via System Settings. If
+> the patches are hackish, why support it while loads of extra display
+> managers are being added. Just creates more problems IMO.
+
+Couldn't agree more. I'd say we can happily provide a tool to configure
+autologin, but if that is configured, it basically just sets the DM to
+gdm, and lets' it do the autologin.
+
+The fact that gdm is used should be mostly hidden from users.
+
+>From what I've seen, gdm seems to be the best implementation of the
+whole pam and authentication stuff, so this would be my personal favourite.
+
+Col
+
+
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