On Fri, 2005-28-01 at 13:59 +0100, Karel Demeyer wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to propose this as a feature request for GDM, but I'm not sure > if it's the right place, therefor I ask it here. > > Wouldn't it be copol if you could have GDM automaticly log in a specifed > user (like it's possible now) but have the X-server locked before gnome > starts up? So, gnome will start up in te background but the Xserver > would still be locked so noone can do stuff with your desktop before the > password is entered. I'd love this as because I always save my gnome > sessions, it takes some time to start up gnome. Nowadays, I boot my > computer, wait for GDM, enter my password and wait again. It would be > better to just boot my computer, do some stuff, enter my apssword and be > able to work with it immediately. > > What do you think about this ? Are there security problems ? Where > should I propose this ? > > Karel Demeyer > http://gnometux.blogspot.com >
So essentially the goal here is to get a performance improvement by pre- loading the GNOME session? Its an interesting hack, but it is unfortunately just that. I think the best place to put this pre-load optimization is the same place Windows XP, (I think MacOSX,) and FC4 put it: On boot they read into RAM a working set of files optimally arranged on disk (100MB should take a couple seconds), so that (hopefully) starting GNOME should rarely ever seek to disk. Actually come to think about it, GDM might be a nice place to pre-cache and $HOME related files, so that a GNOME session *never* has to touch disk. I would like to see a disk profile of disk accesses during a GNOME session start-up. (Just to be clear for those not in the know, pre-caching is just as good as "pre-running" because memory I/O is always the bottleneck) Cheers, Ryan _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
