Hi,
I've attached the updated news item.
It now depends on openrc and the wording has been improved to
make it less ambiguous about it being optional.
Aisha
Title: New OpenRC Display Manager Initializer Scripts
Author: Aisha Tammy <gen...@aisha.cc>
Posted: 2020-10-22
Revision: 2
News-Item-Format: 2.0
Display-If-Installed: sys-apps/openrc
There has been a refactoring of the old 'xdm' init script and its
requirements from various packages into an independent package:
gui-libs/display-manager-init
This package provides the 'display-manager' startup script for
handling your chosen display manager, without being dependent on
Xorg server.
To update to the new DM init scripts, you need to manually add the
package in your @world set:
emerge -vuDU gui-libs/display-manager-init
To start using the new init scripts, change the DISPLAYMANAGER
variable in the /etc/conf.d/display-manager to your preferred DM:
DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm"
and remove 'xdm' from the default runlevel and add 'display-manager':
rc-update del xdm default
rc-update add display-manager default
The changes are complete and on the next reboot, 'display-manager'
will start your chosen DM.
To switch to the new scripts without rebooting, run the following
commands in a tty:
rc-service xdm stop
rc-service display-manager start
