Ticket #995 (closed defect: fixed)
Support lightdm
| Reported by: | geofft | Owned by: | jrjarvis |
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| Priority: | blocker | Milestone: | Precise Beta |
| Component: | -- | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Fixed in version: | ||
| Upstream bug: |
Change History
comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by geofft
- Milestone changed from The Distant Future to Oneiric Support
comment:2 Changed 13 years ago by jdreed
- Priority changed from normal to blocker
We have completely failed to do this, and don't really have time to bikeshed about a new theme. For now, can we decide that -login-graphical depends on gdm and divert /etc/X11/default-display-manager? Users who don't want gdm are welcome to run a different metapackage.
comment:3 Changed 13 years ago by jdreed
bbaren has been looking at this.
My take on Unity/lightdm now is that we make the best of a bad situation and stop fighting upstream. I will be satisfied with a background image and some way to run a kiosk session.
"We can also revive dm/xlogin..."
comment:5 Changed 13 years ago by jdreed
OK, this turned out to be nowhere near as terrible as it could have been. r25494 contains a preliminary greeter, written in Python and Gtk+3 with Gobject introspection. This allows us to recycle a lot of code from gdm-config/pieces-of-flair, etc. One of the benefits of us "owning" the greeter is that we can do away with a lot of terrible hacks, since we can check the validity of usernames, check for updates in progress, etc.
comment:7 Changed 13 years ago by jdreed
Packaging done in r25529-r25531. The plan is to continue to depend on gdm-config, but also depend on lightdm-config where available, which will do everything in its power to force the user to lightdm. We may want to consider scribbling over /etc/X11/default-display-manager on cluster, but it's probably not necessary.
comment:9 Changed 13 years ago by jdreed
Deployment on Oneiric blocking on LP:990490, and some UI issues fixed in lightdm-config 1.2. Otherwise this is ready to go to production.
comment:10 Changed 12 years ago by jdreed
- Status changed from development to proposed
OK, the fixed lightdm for Oneiric made it into oneiric-updates, so we're good to go.
comment:11 Changed 12 years ago by jdreed
- Status changed from proposed to closed
- Resolution set to fixed
