Re: [Lxde-list] About the fedora package of lxdm

[Julien L. <gi...@ub...>]

Le vendredi 22 janvier 2010 à 00:23 +0100, Christoph Wickert a écrit :
> > the real way we should go is to support plymouth
> > lxdm now plymouth, here is my way to do it
> > 
> > first, modify the /etc/X11/prefdm to support lxdm
> > elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = XDM ]; then
> >                 preferred=/usr/bin/xdm
> > elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = LXDM ]; then
> >                 preferred=/usr/bin/lxdm
> >                 quit_arg="--retain-splash"
> 
> We requested that a while back for Xfce, but it was rejected. See
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=142260#c6 for more info.
> For now, the solution is to add
> DISPLAYMANAGER=/usr/bin/lxdm
> to /etc/sysconfig/desktop

I'm not expert on plymouth, but on Ubuntu I enabled the plymouth support
with the patch included. It's working, still not perfect, but I don't
know where it could be improved (in plymouth or lxdm). The plymouth
implementation on Ubuntu is still young.

Regards,
Julien Lavergne