On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 16:37:12 -0400 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Jc García <jyo.gar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 2014-06-29 13:20 GMT-06:00 <cov...@ccs.covici.com>: > > > Tom Wijsman <tom...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > > >> On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 22:36:14 +0300 > > >> Gevisz <gev...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > > >> > Are you sure that you need gdm at all? > > >> > > >> Yes, `startx` doesn't work well in GNOME 3 for a lot of people; > > >> so, unless one attempts to cover what the login manager sets up, > > >> I don't think that a plain call with a plain `exec > > >> gnome-session` will work. > > >> > > >> It for example needs the *-launch things between exec and > > >> gnome-session. > > > > > > > > So, What can I do aside from restarting gdm after it goes to > > > sleep or whatever its doing after a few minutes? Also, I did try > > > startx and I did get a session and it seems to work, although I > > > have not tested extensively. > > > > > Have you tried any other DM? technically gdm, just calls > > gnome-session( it does other things, but thats the main goal), so > > I'd guess, you could use something like lightdm. altought I haven't > > tested it with gnome. > > I have tried xfce4 using startx and it worked great under openrc and I > went to a lot of trouble to boot with systemd to keep using gnome,
just another reason to return to openrc+xfce4 and, in general, to avoid huge complicated programs that do not comply with the unix principles > but maybe I will go back to xfce4 after all, if using startx with > gnome-session gives problems. >
