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Re: Use the same display manager for all desktop options?



[Petter Reinholdtsen]
> The maintainer reply we just got tell me that #648604 is not going to
> get solved in Wheezy in time, so we need to come up with some other
> solution.  Backporting the newer lightdm and putting it in our
> repository is one alternative.  Adding consolekit support to killer
> can be another.  Perhaps we can add some pam module for lightdm to
> update utmp (easy to write using pam-python)?  Any other ideas?

Actually, dropping killer seem to be the only sensible choice, as killer
no longer work with X users in Wheezy (See
<URL: http://bugs.debian.org/714477 > for the details.  I've commited
the change to svn.

The autolog package might be an alternative, but reading its manual
page, I doubt it is doing what we need to get rid of left-behind
processes.

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen


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