On 29/09/14 02:29, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Either you have the concept of a display manager, which should be then
> pretty agnostic towards the desktop environment used... and especially
> it shouldn't be what it is just expected to start.
> Or you don't have a DM and (in the case of GNOM
On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 10:59 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Yes. gdm's current user interface is just GNOME Shell running in a
> special mode: the fallback non-Shell greeter (which was used by default
> in Debian 7) was removed between 3.8 and 3.10. I suspect this should be
> closed as "not a bug",
Control: tags 762757 + wontfix
On 25/09/14 00:29, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Is gnome-shell really needed for gdm to run?
Yes. gdm's current user interface is just GNOME Shell running in a
special mode: the fallback non-Shell greeter (which was used by default
in Debian 7) was removed betw
Package: gdm3
Version: 3.13.92-1
Severity: wishlist
Hi.
Is gnome-shell really needed for gdm to run?
I thought gdm was intended to also be a general purpose DM,
but people who use anything else, e.g. Cinnamon, than
gnome shell have to pull in the full dependency tree of it.
Cheers,
Chris.
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