GDM early login

[Matthew Lenz]

I just enabled it tonight.  Just to be sure does it still require the run 
time changes in xfs and syslog ?  I made them and everything seemed to work, 
but wasn't sure since all the other changes are now in cvs if they are still 
needed.

[OTish] I was talking to Brian Cameron (main GDM developer at the moment 
from what I see in gnome/cvs) and he is adding some additional "themeing" 
functionality to the picture greeter functionality.  It would be nice to see 
a picture greeter as the default login for local GDM connections on fedora. 
I put the bug in his ear about how the current user list isn't themeable and 
he contacted me a few days later to let me know some stuff was going into 
CVS to help with that.

I also brought up the early-login functionality you guys are working on but 
he didn't comment.  I also put a bug in his ear about triggered animation in 
gdm.  Lots of this stuff might not make sense for XDMCP connections but 
it'll go a long way in improving the professional look of Fedora/Redhat as a 
mainstream desktop env.

btw, the early-login stuff is neat.  Really looking forward to the day when 
it pops up immediately after the hardware init and lets me login before all 
the services have started :)  You guys rock.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael A. Peters" <mpeters at mac.com>
To: "Development discussions related to Fedora Core" 
<fedora-devel-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 8:16 AM
Subject: Re: GDM early login


> On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 11:10 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
>
>>
>> Last question : Will this early-login be considered to become the default
>> for FC4?
>
> I hope so - I've been using it for awhile and its really nice.
> I have noticed though that sometimes if you kill the X server (via
> killall X), you can not log back in. Sometimes it works though and you
> can log back in.
>
> Logging in a console of course works, it's just gdm login that sometimes
> doesn't.
>
> I'll play with it some more and see if I can pin down what the issue is
> so I can file a report.
>
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