[Oneiric-Topic] LightDM for display management

[Loïc Minier]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2011, Robert Ancell wrote:
> - Speed improvements - we can run a greeter without running a full GNOME
> session

 Running a "full" GNOME session sounds like a waste, but it kind of
 makes sense to run a mini-session to start the essential GNOME services
 and reuse GNOME infrastructure as much as possible.  Screen readers
 came up, but there is also:
 - networking -- you might need it for login
 - suspend/resume support -- you might want to close the lid just after
   you booted, but before you entered you logged in
 - shutting down the screen and/or computer if nobody logs in for a
   while
 - sound -- you might want to mute / lower the volume to prevent any
   specific login sound from popping up
 - keyboard configuration -- to type your password in the right layout
   when you have multiple layout configured
 - screensaver?  I don't care about that one, maybe some do

 There is also a case to be made for starting dconf to store the
 settings of the session so that LDM would reuse GNOME infrastructure
 for settings.

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Loïc Minier