Hi Andreas,
Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> writes:
Hello,
a somewhat tangential question, since in any case Gnome is an
important
part of our system: Can we make it easier for a user to get rid
of
everything Gnome?
Are you thinking this would be an option in the installer? Or an
easier way to remove GDM from %desktop-services so you can add
your preferred DM?
Personally I chose the XFCE desktop (but might also be happy
with
others, such as KDE or LXQT), but I think GDM is still required
as the
login manager.
It’s the default on amd64; all other architectures default to
SDDM. Neither are required. LightDM is also supported.
So here are a list of questions:
Is it possible to choose a desktop/graphical environment for
which I
would not need GDM and all the complications this is pulling in?
I’m not sure what the question here is or how it’s different from
your first one.
Can I choose the login manager separately from the desktop
environment
(KDM, XDM)?
You can already do this by specifying system services yourself or
modifying %desktop-services, but it is fairly involved for a new
user, and isn’t an option in the installer. What mechanism to
choose do you think would be helpful here?
If yes, should the default for xfce-desktop-service-type be
changed
(why GDM and not XDM)?
XDM isn’t packaged and there’s no xdm-service-type.
Should it become an entry in the xfce-desktop-configuration
record?
If not, can we somehow get there?
I’m not sure this is possible or desirable. There’s a fundamental
1:N relationship between dm and desktop -- I can have SDDM as the
DM, which lets me log into a KDE or XFCE session. If the DE
service-types are providing the DM, you can only have one of them
on a system, and this becomes impossible.
-- Ian
