Bug#639984: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#639984: lightdm: restart/reload fails if DISPLAY is set

2014-02-11 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 01:22:25PM +0100, Jens Reinsberger wrote: > Nonetheless we were using the runlevel startup scripts to restart lightdm over > a ssh connection which failed while other login managers (namely kdm) did > not. That way you can restart remotely any display manager I know of witho

Bug#639984: lightdm: restart/reload fails if DISPLAY is set

2014-02-11 Thread Jens Reinsberger
Package: lightdm Version: 1.2.2-4 Followup-For: Bug #639984 Dear Maintainer, we were bitten by that in a real environment, too. And, Yves-Alexis, you were wrong when saying other login managers act equally. I agree that when the lightdm binary is started directly it should somehow be able to aut