lightdm or gdm?

Jeremy Bicha jbicha at ubuntu.com
Wed Apr 19 15:57:09 UTC 2017


On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> - gnome-shell uses gdm for its lockscreen so work is needed to make it
> work with lightdm

Generally, lightdm works with GNOME, but it hasn't been tested much so
it sometimes take a while before bugs are noticed and fixed. Here's
some lightdm with GNOME bugs I just learned about:

https://launchpad.net/bugs/1632772 (No Wayland support)
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1684205 (Missing lock button)

Jeremy



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