On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:11:55 +0100 Andreas Volz <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Am Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:12:26 -0500 schrieb Michael Blumenkrantz:
> 
> > On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:03:59 +0100
> > Vincent Torri <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Andreas Volz
> > > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Hello together,
> > > >
> > > > anyone yet thought about writing a EFL greeter frontend for
> > > > LightDM?
> > > >
> > > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LightDM
> > > >
> > > > It's currently default in Ubuntu 11.10:
> > > >
> > > > http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/LightDM
> > > >
> > > > I think it's an easy way to get an EFL login. What do you think?
> > > 
> > > we have elsa, which is working quite nicely
> > > 
> > > Vincent
> > I could be wrong, but I think that his point was that it would make
> > it easier to have e included in distributions which ship this DM.
> > AFAIK, elsa is not included in any distribution.
> 
> Yes this is the point. And additional there're some important points
> for me:
> 
> - I like to use stable software as DM as other people using
>   Gnome/Unity on same PC are using it too. There's zero tolerance if
>   one commit makes problems and elsa is bad working for at least some
>   days.
> 
> - It's less effort to only write a greeter then a DM.
> 
> - I've written some E/gdm plugin to switch users/sessions. Now with
>   LightDM it's not longer working, but I could port one again. I'm not
>   sure if Gnome/Unity is able to do a user session switch with elsa.

I wonder how light LightDM really is?  It's out of FDO, people not
known for their ability to write lightness.

I stopped using elsa coz it wont start up again when I log out.  I'll
try it again sometime later to see if that got fixed.

-- 
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coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.

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