On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 07:32:15PM +0400, John Frankish wrote: > > > >> -----Original Message----- > > > >> To: gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > > > >> Subject: Re: gnome-3.16.x without systemd > > > >> > > > >> 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. > >> > > I based the comment on the fact that the last commit to > https://github.com/desrt/systemd-shim > > was Dec-14, but maybe Ubuntu uses a different git repo? > > > > That notwithstanding, I'm trying to make 3.16.x work and the only way > forward would seem to be to > > debug the "gnome-shell.desktop failed to register" error, hence the > request for help :) > > > bump?
Check out Devuan: supposed to be a Debian derivative without systemd. So far it's vaporware, but they might be able to assist in this regard. I wouldn't expect the Gnome Development community to be the place to ask. Devuan has a website: https://devuan.org/ _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
