[gentoo-dev] [REVIEW] News Item - 2020-10-17-display-manager-init

[Aisha Tammy]

Hi,
  I'm attaching the news item for the upcoming display-manager-init changes

Thanks,
Aisha

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Title: New OpenRC Display Manager Initializer Scripts
Author: Aisha Tammy <gentoo@×××××.cc>
Posted: 2020-10-17
Revision: 1
News-Item-Format: 2.0

There has been a refactoring of the old 'xdm' init script and its 
requirements from various packages into an independent package:

	gui-libs/display-manager-init

This package provides the 'display-manager' startup script for 
handling your chosen display manager, without being dependent on
Xorg server.

To update to the new DM init scripts, you need to manually add the
package in your @world set:

	emerge -vuDU gui-libs/display-manager-init

To start using the new init scripts, change the DISPLAYMANAGER
variable in the /etc/conf.d/display-manager to your preferred DM:

	DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm"

To test the newly installed scripts, you can try to switch to
'display-manager' on the running computer.
Run the following commands in a tty to test your current install:

	rc-service xdm stop
	rc-service display-manager start

If the test succeeds, you can remove the old xdm startup script 
and add display-manager to the default runlevel:

	rc-update del xdm default
	rc-update add display-manager default

Reboot your computer to perform a final test and check to see
that your chosen display manager has started.