lightdm or gdm?

[Robert Ancell]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 3:58 AM Jeremy Bicha <jbicha at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 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)
>


LightDM has supported Wayland since 1.16 (Ubuntu 15.10). This has however
not been actively used or enhanced by me due to the conflict of interest
with the development of Mir. Now we are using Wayland on the desktop I
expect to be much more involved in this feature.

--Robert
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