On mer., 2012-08-01 at 14:50 +0200, Jonathan Michalon wrote: > Le Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:49:31 +0200, > Yves-Alexis Perez <cor...@debian.org> a écrit : > > On mar., 2012-07-31 at 11:03 +0200, Jonathan Michalon wrote: > > > Investigations show that GNOME (shell, menu, screensaver / lock) use > > > gdmflexiserver > > > (which may not be removed due to dependencies). > > > But gdmflexiserver uses the SESSION bus, whereas lightdm listens to > > > SYSTEM bus. > > > So you mean that GNOME stopped calling directly /usr/lib/gdmflexiserver > > but rather sends a dbus call? > > Nope, GNOME uses gdmflexiserver, which in turn seems to send a dbus call (at > least everything tend to show that). > Maybe my sentence was not that clear ;)
So *who* sends to the session bus? > > > > Ubuntu ships a gdmflexiserver script doing the --system dbus-send call > > > located > > > in a directory placed at the beginning of PATH which can be considered as > > > an > > > (ugly) workaround. Listening to session bus (if this is standard) may be > > > better. > > > > > > > The script is upstream, but I remove it on purpose. But How could > > lightdm listen on the session bus, which is owned by the user, afaict. > > No idea. But why remove the script, if they think that this is The Right Way™ > ? Because there's no way I'll add /usr/lib/lightdm in $PATH of a user. > > I'm no expert in that area, and as such I may be completely misleading. But as > is I can't use lightdm together with GNOME as I often need to change user. To be honest, GNOME users aren't my priority here, considering they can use gdm3. I'm more targetting Xfce and non-DE users. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis
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