[Mageia-dev] A note on autologin and startx

Sat Apr 7 09:50:15 CEST 2012

2012/4/7 Jose Jorge <lists.jjorge at free.fr>:
+> Le 06/04/2012 22:53, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
+>
+>> 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
+>
+> Please note that autologin is lightweight and fast, so I use it for very old
+> systems, where even the 30Mb of RAM eaten by gdm count.
+> But I just can agree that if no one has time to fix it, we can drop it. I'll
+> be away from computers for  15 days ...
+
+Does GDM provide change of desktop as KDM does?
+
+My scenario: I have KDE and Gnome and Xfce installed. For system start
+I have autologin set to start KDE. But when I am in a KDE session I
+sometimes logout and use the upcoming KDM to start a Gnome or Xfce
+session or even a session on a vt. Does this work with GDM as well? If
+so I'm all in.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+