rhgb-0.10.2-1

[Bryan W. Headley]

Thomas Dodd wrote:
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> Paul Iadonisi wrote:
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>> On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 14:25, Kevin Worthington wrote:
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>>> 2. Why is there a pause between the bootup, and the graphical login 
>>> screen?
>>> It seems like X kicks out, and then restarts. It seems a little 
>>> "un-refined",
>>> for lack of better words.
>>
>> proposal is to have a '--hide-login-screen' (or whatever) option to gdm
>> so that gdm can start X, but not start the greeter.  Then, rhgb could
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> <...>
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>> easy answer to this with the current initscripts model (as well as other
>> factors, I'm sure).

All of this avoids the real issue: rhgb is incredibly slow. It takes 
this thing 6 seconds to appear and put up the panel that says what's 
starting up in initscripts. And while it's thrashing, coming up, it's 
impeding the startup of other services. It's ill-advised; you can go to 
SVGA or the framebuffer faster and with less footprint to put up a blue 
background and a newt panel...

Add to that the complaint that rhgb starts and X server, stops it, and 
allows gdm to start another. If things remain as they are, rhgb should 
start up X, do it's thing, then hand over responsibility of that X 
server to gdm.


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