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On Sat, 2020-10-17 at 18:05 -0400, Aisha Tammy wrote: |
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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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> 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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Do you really think a rename for the sake of renaming justifies |
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requiring all users to rewrite their configuration? While we're |
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requiring the users to do that, wouldn't it be better to stop using |
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the awful layout of 'one script to run them all', and switch to separate |
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scripts for every DM? |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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