If we believe that Wayland is the future it makes sense to me to exercise the new stack on a small thing like GDM. If Wayland is the default backend it's also bound to be better tested by upstream.
On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, 00:37 Alexander Ried, <[email protected]> wrote: > 2016-10-26 22:01 GMT+02:00 Jascha Geerds <[email protected]>: > > But you can still select a legacy (X server based) Gnome session inside > GDM, right? > > The decision which type of user session (x or wayland) will be started is > based on the path of the .desktop file that's requested: If the parent > folder is called wayland-sessions, gdm starts a wayland user session. > Otherwise a x user session. > > Our xserver module generates these files as > /nix/store/<hash>-desktops/<name>.desktop, so it should always start a x > user session. > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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