lightdm or gdm?

[C de-Avillez]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:13:40 +0200
Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> Le 20/04/2017 à 14:56, Tim a écrit :
> > What technical reasons remain ? So far as I can tell its really only
> > the tests?   
> 
> Robert made the list in his replies, not sure how configuration
> systems/logging/remote login/etc compared and how useful they are but
> we have several flavors relying on lightdm and having their own
> greeters, it would be nice to be able to keep supporting those
> communities and share that piece of infrastructure between Ubuntu
> variants (it's not likely that we invest work on several codebases so
> if we switch to gdm we are likely going to stop working on lightdm)

On point for LightDM that I think should be stressed: we can select DEs
on the login pane.

Perhaps I am an exception, but I usually have at least two DEs
installed; right now, I have three: KDE, Unity, and Gnome. Neither gdm3
nor sdm allow me to select which of the three DEs I want to start the
session under, but instead default to the last one selected.

On the other hand, a common drawback on all three DMs is the inability
to consider left-handed persons (where, usually, the primary
mouse|touchpad button is the right one). That sucks for all three.

Cheers,

..C..
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