On Monday 26 January 2015 11.43:56 Raymond Wooninck wrote:
Hi Everyone,
The current methodology around starting the Display Manager is a script that is provided by the XDM package and a single systemd unit file. The script is doing all kind of stuff it seems, but one of them is reading a sysconfig file to see which DM should be started.
Most of our Display Managers (SDDM, GDM, Lightdm, etc) already have proper systemd support and provide their own unit files, but we are removing those in order to keep the above mentioned methodology working.
My proposal would be to drop the current method (including the script and special unit files from the xdm package) and to utilize the proper systemd support from the installed Display Manager itself.
One way (the easiest one) would be that an user can only have a single Display Manager installed and the are mutually exclusive. The installation and removal of the unit files can then be done within the DM package itself. The downside would be that the user can not easily choose which DM to use.
The other way (which would be more comparable to the current method) is that the Display Managers are providing the proper unit files, but the installation of them is done through YaST. Like now, through the sysconfig editor, you can select which Display Manager should be used and this would install the corresponding unit files.
The changes requires in YaST would be that the user can only select from a list of Display Managers. Once a DM is selected, YaST should validate if the corresponding unit file is present. If the unit file is not present, YaST should offer to install the package. After this YaST should install and enable the corresponding unit file. This would then generate the correct display- manager.service which is required by systemd to start the display-manager.
I would appreciate on-topic replies, feasibility of a proposal and which proposal would be preferred.
Raymond
I'm in favor of keeping the DM selection (the final choice by the user) in Yast which seems more coherent with the global experience we try to offer. There's one point to check is remote desktop login are still supported. (VNC X2go etc methods) I believe that having 3-4 DM installed shouldn't be that hard, the service are "masked" until one is chosen. -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member & Board, fsfe fellowship GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org