On 20/05/15 19:36, John Frankish wrote: > -----Original Message----- >> From: gnome-shell-list [mailto:gnome-shell-list-boun...@gnome.org] On > Behalf Of Olaf Leidinger >> Sent: Wednesday, 20 May, 2015 13:01 >> To: gnome-shell-list@gnome.org >> Subject: Re: gnome-3.16.x without systemd >> >> instead of using ConsoleKit, wouldn't it be possible for you to use a > non-systemd logind implementation? If I recall correctly, there were at > least two attempts: systembsd and some other I forgot. > Thanks, the choices seem to be: > > 1. LoginKit (logind compatible api on top of ConsoleKit2) - not yet working > and development apparently postponed for now. > > 2. systemd-shim (limited support for some of the systemd apis) - development > halted systemd-shim is not an reimplementation of logind, its a wrapper to allow the use of systemd logind and a few other components without requiring systemd init. It certainly provides enough for a full GNOME support up to 3.14 and probably 3.16, we were using it in Ubuntu GNOME up until the recent switch to systemd init, and it worked well.
I don't know where you heard development is halted, Canonical will need to keep maintaining it so long as they still have upstart in the archives. > 3. systembsd (a reimplementation of the systemd apis portable to BSD > distributions) - I don't use bsd > > ..which is why I'm using consolekit, which the gnome wiki says should work > for 3.16.x :) > > Regards > John > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
