On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:38:40AM -0500, Kevin Toppins wrote:
On 26 March 2014 10:13, Cameron Norman <camerontnorman@gmail.com> wrote:
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> That is pretty much impossible, according to the developers of the logind
> API and its single implementation. Perhaps a subset of the logind API for
> use by desktop environments / compositors would be more useful in this init
> and OS portability predicament. I think Matthias Clasen, a GNOME developer,
> actually recently expressed interest in this from a portable window manager
> and compositor's perspective.
Ryan Lortie said he'd work with others on some minimal logind like API
during 3.14 cycle. But focussed on entire GNOME stack, not just
gnome-shell. Complication being GDM (=extra work). Implementation on
non-Linux to be done by those developers (FreeBSD, etc; they seems to be
ok with that)