[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] [DESIGN] Restart

[pbrobinson at gmail.com]

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> El Sat, 17-07-2010 a las 02:25 +0200, Sebastian Dziallas escribió:
>
>> I think the last time I looked into this, olpc-switch-desktop depended
>> on olpc-dm, which comes with the entire olpc-utils package. Hence,
>> we're currently going with gdm. :)
>
> Using gdm with autologin is probably ok, but you don't want to show the
> regular GDM login screen before Sugar boots, do you?

We use autologin.

> We could slightly modify olpc-switch-desktop to create the file that gdm
> looks for to choose the session. It could create _both_ files, so the
> package could be shared between SoaS and OLPC builds.
>
> Even better, it could do what the standard switchdesk package does:
> create a ~/.Xclients and ~/.Xclients-default file, which should work
> with any display manager as long as they execute xinit.
>
> If olpc-dm does not execute xinit, it probably should.
>
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