[Mageia-dev] A note on autologin and startx

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2012/4/7 Jose Jorge <lists.jjorge at free.fr>:
> 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 ...

Does GDM provide change of desktop as KDM does?

My scenario: I have KDE and Gnome and Xfce installed. For system start
I have autologin set to start KDE. But when I am in a KDE session I
sometimes logout and use the upcoming KDM to start a Gnome or Xfce
session or even a session on a vt. Does this work with GDM as well? If
so I'm all in.

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wobo