FC17 XFCE Spin: what DM?

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:40:01 -0300
Sergio <secipolla at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 07/16/2012 10:31 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > FC16 XFCE spin has been released with XFCE environment but GDM DM.
> >
> > There was a time where LightDM was not really usable in Fedora
> > because of code issues:
> > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/xfce/2011-May/000519.html
> >
> > As far as I read, it's packaged now and seems to be usable:
> > http://pkgs.org/fedora-17/fedora-updates-x86_64/lightdm-gtk-1.1.6-3.fc17.x86_64.rpm.html
> >
> >
> > Those who used FC17 XFCE spin: what's the situation? Is it working
> > OOTB?

Note that F16 and F17 use gdm. 
lightdm was not available at the time they were created, and Fedora
does not (officially) respin releases once they are made. 

> Lightdm 1.2.2-15 here (and gtk greeter 1.1.6-3), working fine.
> I found some little issues, like if you have an open session in a 
> console terminal and try to shutdown from the lightdm greeter it will 
> just get stuck there (instead of giving a warning and an option to
> cancel). Also it sorts the users and session alphabetically (first
> capitals then small case) and apparently we can't define a default
> user/session (it always boots selected with the first on the list for
> both user and session).

I wonder if that will be a stopper for us with the live media. I guess
not, since liveuser should be the only one showing up there hopefully. 

> Also xguest (testing package without dependency on gdm) didn't work
> when I tried but it might be that it just doesn't work if not with
> GNOME (I have limited space to test all alternatives but the xguest
> creator said he would have a look on that).

Yeah, it will likely take time to work all the bugs out. ;( 

kevin
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