On mar, nov 25, 2014 at 05:57:02 +0100, Didier Roche wrote: > Le 25/11/2014 17:48, Alessandro Ghedini a écrit : > >On mar, nov 25, 2014 at 05:30:25 +0100, Didier Roche wrote: > >>Le 25/11/2014 17:09, Alessandro Ghedini a écrit : > >>>On mar, nov 25, 2014 at 04:12:00 +0100, Didier Roche wrote: > >>>>Here is the patch for slim, I'll add to that bug other impacted DMs and > >>>>proposing patches. > >>>I don't get it, how is your patch different than mine (which mimics what > >>>lightdm > >>>does)? Btw, you may also want to look at #759005. > >>> > >>>Cheers > >>It's handling the mask unit case, meaning that if you systemctl mask > >><service>, it won't come back . > >Ah, ok, that makes sense. > > > >Re: handling of this in jessie+1, did you mean having Alias=display-manager > >and > >enabling the dfault with systemctl enable ...? If so, is it going to be kept > >in > >sync with /etc/X11/default-display-manager? > > > On @Alias: exactly (actually systemctl --force enable if another display > manager is already the default to force the new symlink). We still have to > discuss and find a way to gracefully handle /etc/X11/default-display-manager > to stay in sync though. One of the goal is to avoid the current preexec > which is failing (and letting you down) if it doesn't match anymore what is > enabled and what is the default. > > I guess we'll have a patch on systemctl for this and if > Alias=display-manager -> update /etc/X11/default-display-manager. The > postinst will read from /etc/X11/default-display-manager after the debconf > prompt Aas of now (but will be way smaller).
I wonder if this could be made into a debhelper script (kinda like dh_installwm but for display managers), so that there wouldn't be any need to copy-paste postinst snippets from other packages. > The remaining question is how to handle people editing > /etc/X11/default-display-manager manually. Any input/ideas welcome :) Do people actually do that? Maybe having a systemd generator thet reads the file and creates display-manager.service accordingly (not sure if that's possible). Though that would make any manual change to the symlink useless... Anyway, I'm not really much of an expert in these things, I only got involved because I wanted xdm to use the systemd service... Cheers
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