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<H1>[Mageia-dev] A note on autologin and startx</H1>
<B>Wolfgang Bornath</B>
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<I>Sat Apr 7 09:50:15 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>2012/4/7 Jose Jorge <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">lists.jjorge at free.fr</A>>:
><i> Le 06/04/2012 22:53, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
</I>><i>
</I>>><i> Couldn't agree more. 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.
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</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>
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
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