On 05/31/17 00:30, Rick Leir wrote:
> as my cursory searches show, one needs to have a "greeter" installed
Thanks for telling me, I had not heard of "greeter"s (embarrassed).
Even though I remember FC6. Your advice is most welcome.
Black screen .. that was my problem, and I was deep into X11 logs
trying to find the fix. Do you think there should be a dependency so a
greeter of some sort will normally get installed? I am spoiled from a
few years of using the slick Ubuntu UI's. Now that may change, as I
hear of drastic changes in that camp.
No, I don't think there should be a dependency that a greeter is
installed since it is documented that you can use lightdm without a
greeter if you have an autologin setup.
Also, gtk could be a bit more defensive. Maybe I should get involved.
The design probably uses Dependency Injection, and I would be inclined
to code in some checks so that a friendly message goes in the log
before a crash due to a missing / null dependency. I have done c++ UI
code in the past, but I might be a bit rusty.
Cheers --Rick
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