[opensuse-factory] Proposal - Change display manager for minimal X install to lightdm
Hi all, Was just testing openSUSE:Leap milestone 2 and I ran into the following issue, I wanted to use enlightenment as my DE so I did a minimal X install loaded up yast after the first boot and installed enlightenment. I then rebooted and was presented with xdm which has no way to change the DE other then editing /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager, so rather then doing this I tried installing another lightweight DM. First I tried sddm which claims to be light weight, but currently pulls in all of plasma so instead I installed lightdm. After rebooting xdm still came up so i had to go edit /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager. From my point of view having to edit a file in /etc/sysconfig is not user friendly so this should be fixed, there are 2 ways that I could think of doing this. 1. When installing a new Display Manager or maybe even Window Manager the files in /etc/sysconfig automatically get updated (Some users probably won't want this, also significant effort) 2. Modify the Minimal X11 Pattern to install lightdm or another lightweight dm that allows the selection of window managers at run time. (Lightdm doesn't have any significant dependencies, I guess this would probably break some openQA tests though). Cheers Simon Lees --- openSUSE Enlightenment Maintainer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
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Simon Lees