On Thu, 21.06.12 14:06, Lennart Poettering (lenn...@poettering.net) wrote: > Heya, > > just a quick heads up if you are hacking on a multi-seat aware display > manager: with current git there is a new property CanGraphical on each > seat, and you probably should update your display manager to care for > this field, so that you properly handle seats which lack graphical > support. The main reason we added this field is to fix a race: when the > system comes up it might do so with a text console only, which is then > later on turned into a graphical one as the KMS driver is loaded and > video probed. We nowadays boot so fast that this might happen at a time > where your display manager has already been started, so you need to > watch CanGraphical so that you don't end up trying to start X11 on seat0 > at a time where the KMS driver is not around yet. > > There is also a new variable CanTTY for the reverse, which is handy in > some cases for USB graphics devices where the VT logic is not > available. This also paves the way for CONFIG_VT less kernels, like the > ones David Herrmann is working on. > > I have updated the wiki to reflect this: > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/writing-display-managers
The bug I filed about this against gdm, in case you are interested: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678535 Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
