On 10/12/2011 10:09 PM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: ...
What is the overall view of this issue? Is this a bug? Is your solution the right one? Should it be fed back to the XFCE team? From my perspective, this should Just Work, and the user shouldn't be expected to figure out a solution like this....
...Not that I'm really involved in this part of the thread (I'm the guy who suggested LightDM.), but I thought I'd let you know that I was informed that the Xfce team are planning to use LightDM as their default DM.
Since GDM (version 2) got dropped from Debian testing fairly recently -- but _before_ LightDM was available -- XDM was chosen for the time being to be the default DM you'd get when doing an Xfce installation. (I'm not certain whether or not this is still the case. Aptitude on my newly installed systems still shows XDM as a dependency of task-xfce-desktop, even though LightDM is obviously now available in the testing main repository.)
It's my understand that the Debian package manager for Xfce and the Xfce devs upstream are focusing efforts on making LightDM work, rather than supporting XDM. It would be nice if they had made XDM work better, but time and resources are always scarce in development and support -- and this is especially so when a surprise like the dropping of GDM version 2 (the previous default DM) occurs.
I think we'll like the eventual result of their efforts, but right now things seem a little unsettled.