Timothy Sample <samp...@ngyro.com> skribis: > I have some changes that are more-or-less ready. It’s mostly just > cleaning up, but it makes it so that GNOME does not have to be in the > system profile for GDM to work. (Note that the GDM service references > GNOME Shell, which requires most of GNOME, but it doesn’t end up in the > profile.)
Oh, are you saying that currently GNOME must be in the system profile for GDM to work? I hadn’t realized. My goal was to have GDM instead of SLiM in ‘%desktop-services’, but ‘%desktop-services’ does not necessarily imply GNOME. So I guess your patches will be more than welcome! >> The one thing I didn’t get to work is ~/.xsession support. Any ideas? [...] > Debian provides a custom “Xsession” script and a custom > “default.desktop” file, which runs the script with the special argument > “default”. With this argument, the “Xsession” does a bunch of stuff by > running all of the scripts in an “Xsession.d” directory, including one > that tries running “~/.xsession”. If Debian does it this way, then maybe we should just follow suit. >> BTW, at the Guix Days, there were discussions about defaulting to >> LightDM instead of GDM. I forgot to mention then that using LightDM >> wouldn’t solve the GNOME use case; in particular, closing the lid under >> GNOME wouldn’t lock the screen, and clicking the lock button wouldn’t >> have any effect, which is pretty bad. > > Of course, it is good to have a nice alternative to SLiM that is simpler > than GDM. GDM is needed for the proper GNOME experience, but it is too > much for most non-GNOME setups. Ultimately, Guix is nice and > configurable, so I’m everyone can find a way to be happy. :) Definitely. I think we should default to GDM in ‘%desktop-services’ for accessibility and localization and so that GNOME actually works out of the box when people choose it, but obviously everyone is free to customize their config! Thanks, Ludo’.
