Re: Use the same display manager for all desktop options?
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 12:19:09AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>
> Debian Edu handle four different desktop options at the moment. KDE,
> Gnome, LXDE and XFCE. These pull in different display managers, but I
> suspect we would be better off by not doing so. This is the current
> status:
>
> desktop d-m Comment
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> KDE kdm with our artwork, with adjusted configuration
> Gnome gdm3 without our artwork, support speech for blind
> LXDE lightdm without our artwork
> XFCE lightdm without our artwork
>
> I am not sure, but I believe gdm handle PAM better than kdm (as in
> handle expired password properly). No idea about lightdm in this
> respect.
lightdm has many problems, out of the box, in Ubuntu, and I
putted the kdm | gdm dependancy.
I would try to KISS it and thus use plain gdm3 like a plain
standard debian installation.
Regards
Giorgio
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