On Mon, Feb 11, 2019, at 1:55 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > BTW, at the Guix Days, there were discussions about defaulting to > LightDM instead of GDM. I forgot to mention then that using LightDM > wouldn’t solve the GNOME use case; in particular, closing the lid under > GNOME wouldn’t lock the screen, and clicking the lock button wouldn’t > have any effect, which is pretty bad.
According to Hans de Goede's talk[1] at FOSDEM (around 27:00), GDM is currently the only option for running Xorg without root privileges. If true, that's a very compelling reason to default to GDM. -- Alex Griffin [1]: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/flickerfree/
