On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 12:57 AM Tim <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 20/04/17 00:32, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > > - gnome-shell uses gdm for its lockscreen so work is needed to make it > > work with lightdm > That is not entirely right, the GUI for gdm is actually a cut-down > gnome-shell session, this applies to both lock screen and greeter. gdm > does however handle all user authentication, which is a little different > from how lightdm work afaict (Robert correct me on this If I am wrong). > > Support for allowing lock screens to do authentication was added in LightDM 1.20 and Unity used this (i.e. the same as the GDM lock screen). Running a cut-down gnome-shell session is no different from runing any greeter (Unity Greeter was effectively a cut-down Unity session with a simple shell).
--Robert
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