Re: [gentoo-user] how to wake up gdm

Jc García <jyo.garcia@×××××.com> wrote:

> 2014-06-29 13:20 GMT-06:00  <covici@××××××××××.com>:
> > Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 22:36:14 +0300
> >> Gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Are you sure that you need gdm at all?
> >>
> >> Yes, `startx` doesn't work well in GNOME 3 for a lot of people; so,
> >> unless one attempts to cover what the login manager sets up, I don't
> >> think that a plain call with a plain `exec gnome-session` will work.
> >>
> >> It for example needs the *-launch things between exec and gnome-session.
> >
>
> > So, What can I do aside from restarting gdm after it goes to sleep or
> > whatever its doing after a few minutes?  Also, I did try startx and I
> > did get a session and it seems to work, although I have not tested
> > extensively.
> >
> Have you tried any other DM? technically gdm, just calls
> gnome-session( it does other things, but thats the main goal), so I'd
> guess, you could use something like lightdm. altought I haven't tested
> it with gnome.

I have tried xfce4 using startx and it worked great under openrc and I
went to a lot of trouble to boot with systemd to keep using gnome, but
maybe I will go back to xfce4 after all, if using startx with
gnome-session gives problems.

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