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Hi, |
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I've attached the updated news item. |
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It now depends on openrc and the wording has been improved to |
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make it less ambiguous about it being optional. |
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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: 2020-10-22 |
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Revision: 2 |
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News-Item-Format: 2.0 |
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Display-If-Installed: sys-apps/openrc |
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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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and remove 'xdm' from the default runlevel and add 'display-manager': |
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rc-update del xdm default |
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rc-update add display-manager default |
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The changes are complete and on the next reboot, 'display-manager' |
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will start your chosen DM. |
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To switch to the new scripts without rebooting, run the following |
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commands in a tty: |
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rc-service xdm stop |
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rc-service display-manager start |
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