Xgl in Dapper

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Fri Feb 17 22:56:29 GMT 2006


On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 03:17:02PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 12:45:20PM +0000, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible to make this part of the Session list in the GDM Options menu?
> > So that people can select it there, then login? And unselect it once they feel
> > the need for less... jiggle?
> 
> With a bit more effort, yes. The easiest thing to do might be to add an 
> extra package that provides the session, depends on compiz and starts 
> everything up.

Wouldn't this require launching a separate X server for the session?  I
think gdm currently just resets the server it uses to display the login
dialog.

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 - mdz



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