[Mageia-dev] A note on autologin and startx

[Jose Jorge]

Le 06/04/2012 22:53, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
> Couldn't agree more. I'd say we can happily provide a tool to configure
> autologin, but if that is configured, it basically just sets the DM to
> gdm, and lets' it do the autologin.
>
> The fact that gdm is used should be mostly hidden from users.
>
> > From what I've seen, gdm seems to be the best implementation of the
> whole pam and authentication stuff, so this would be my personal favourite.
>
> Col
Please note that autologin is lightweight and fast, so I use it for very 
old systems, where even the 30Mb of RAM eaten by gdm count.
But I just can agree that if no one has time to fix it, we can drop it. 
I'll be away from computers for  15 days ...