Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME
On 2013-12-22 09:31:09 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> "Milan P. Stanic" <mps@arvanta.net> writes:
> > Really odd. With my testing/unstable installation on amd64 and armhf
> > (Asus TF101 tablet) systemd and lightdm combo works without any problem
> > for nearly a year.
>
> It's possible I had some local configuration issue of which I was unaware.
> I'll probably give it another try when I'm not traveling for the holidays.
> Thanks for mentioning! gdm3 is kind of heavy-weight and slow to start up,
> so it would be nice to switch back to something lighter.
I've switched one machine back from lightdm to gdm3 due to a security
bug in the nouveau driver affecting lightdm:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72979
So, be careful when using lightdm in combination with the nouveau driver.
Disabling the Composite extension avoids this bug but triggers another
bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49786
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