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On 10/17/20 6:44 PM, Alexey Sokolov wrote: |
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> сб, 17 окт. 2020 г. в 23:05, Aisha Tammy <gentoo.dev@×××××.cc>: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> I'm attaching the news item for the upcoming display-manager-init changes |
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>> Thanks, |
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>> Aisha |
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>> Title: New OpenRC Display Manager Initializer Scripts |
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>> Author: Aisha Tammy <gentoo@×××××.cc> |
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>> Posted: 2020-10-17 |
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>> Revision: 1 |
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>> News-Item-Format: 2.0 |
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> This will be shown even if no xdm was installed? |
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Yes, that is true, but there is no xdm package per se (not referring to the |
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display manager XDM, but the init script xdm). |
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This is one of the reasons for the refactoring, because there is no single |
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provider for xdm, parts of the scripts are present in sysvinit, xinit, xorg-server. |
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And the overloading of terms for xdm init script and XDM display manager |
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. |
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This puts them together into one package, while renaming and clearing the confusion. |
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A potential check could be for xorg-server, which should be OK, but I |
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don't see the harm in being a bit more cautious and letting everyone read |
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it. |
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Display-If-Present: x11-base/xorg-server |
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>> There has been a refactoring of the old 'xdm' init script and its |
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>> requirements from various packages into an independent package: |
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>> gui-libs/display-manager-init |
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>> This package provides the 'display-manager' startup script for |
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>> handling your chosen display manager, without being dependent on |
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>> Xorg server. |
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>> To update to the new DM init scripts, you need to manually add the |
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>> package in your @world set: |
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>> emerge -vuDU gui-libs/display-manager-init |
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>> To start using the new init scripts, change the DISPLAYMANAGER |
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>> variable in the /etc/conf.d/display-manager to your preferred DM: |
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>> DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm" |
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>> To test the newly installed scripts, you can try to switch to |
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>> 'display-manager' on the running computer. |
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>> Run the following commands in a tty to test your current install: |
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>> rc-service xdm stop |
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>> rc-service display-manager start |
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>> If the test succeeds, you can remove the old xdm startup script |
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>> and add display-manager to the default runlevel: |
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>> rc-update del xdm default |
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>> rc-update add display-manager default |
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>> Reboot your computer to perform a final test and check to see |
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>> that your chosen display manager has started. |
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> What happens if I ignore this news item and do nothing? |
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If you ignore this news item and upgrade your packages without installing |
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display-manager-init, you will no longer have an 'xdm' init script and you will |
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not get a gui on boot. |
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(Don't ignore news items people :P) |
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Aisha |
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