Re: Default display manager should not be gdm3

2012-02-28 Thread Bjørn Mork
Josselin Mouette writes: > This feature was in squeeze and so far we didn’t reinstate it in 3.x on > upstream request. This is because they complained people used this > feature to shoot themselves in the foot and then accused gdm of being > broken. So they choose to break gdm and ignore all th

Re: Default display manager should not be gdm3

2012-02-23 Thread Fernando Lemos
Em 23/02/2012 14:58, "Steve Langasek" escreveu: > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 08:56:22AM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > Moreover, other display  manager may not work correctly  because gdm3 is > > the only  display manager supporting  all modern stuff. For  example, we > > could switch to  somethi

Re: Default display manager should not be gdm3

2012-02-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 08:56:22AM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > Moreover, other display manager may not work correctly because gdm3 is > the only display manager supporting all modern stuff. For example, we > could switch to something like "slim" but slim does not play nice with > ConsoleK

Re: Default display manager should not be gdm3

2012-02-23 Thread The Fungi
On 2012-02-23 05:54:49 -0800 (-0800), Russ Allbery wrote: > I probably missed some key thing that makes this work, but the > last time I tried, using startx when you want to launch a desktop > environment like GNOME or Xfce was quite painful and confusing. [...] Ahh, yes... I don't try. I'm just u

Re: Default display manager should not be gdm3

2012-02-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 23 février 2012 à 05:54 -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : > I probably missed some key thing that makes this work, but the last time I > tried, using startx when you want to launch a desktop environment like > GNOME or Xfce was quite painful and confusing. There might be some remaining probl

Re: Default display manager should not be gdm3

2012-02-23 Thread Russ Allbery
The Fungi writes: > Maybe I don't use enough of the whiz-bang graphicky features lots of > people want, but I find logging into a vty and launching startx, just > like I have for decades, to work just fine. I'm certainly not going to > begrudge others their pointy-clicky fanciness, but I also don

Re: Default display manager should not be gdm3

2012-02-23 Thread The Fungi
On 2012-02-22 23:52:09 + (+), Ian Jackson wrote: > On my netbook I'm running a pretty vanilla install of squeeze, > although my personal desktop session is very different to usual. > > I wanted to add a command-line option to my X server. I spent 15 > mins trawling through docs and greppin

Re: Default display manager should not be gdm3

2012-02-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 22 février 2012 à 23:52 +, Ian Jackson a écrit : > I wanted to add a command-line option to my X server. I spent 15 mins > trawling through docs and grepping for config options with no luck. > So I asked a search engine. Actually there is a way in squeeze (since you’re talking ab

Re: Default display manager should not be gdm3

2012-02-22 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette fin de nuit blanche du jeudi 23 février 2012, vers 06:47, Miles Bader disait : >> We should not still be using this software. > Er, given that gdm3 works fine for many people, that seems excessive. > Moreover, the choice of default display manager seems unrelated to its > ability

Re: Default display manager should not be gdm3

2012-02-22 Thread Miles Bader
Ian Jackson writes: > We should not still be using this software. Er, given that gdm3 works fine for many people, that seems excessive. Moreover, the choice of default display manager seems unrelated to its ability to support obscure tweaks -- indeed, it's very common for default packages to be

Default display manager should not be gdm3

2012-02-22 Thread Ian Jackson
On my netbook I'm running a pretty vanilla install of squeeze, although my personal desktop session is very different to usual. I wanted to add a command-line option to my X server. I spent 15 mins trawling through docs and grepping for config options with no luck. So I asked a search engine. It