Please stop installing GDM by default
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I booted up Trisquel 5.5 in a virtual machine today and noticed they were still using GDM even with Ubuntu, Mint, and most distributions moving to LightDM. I wasn't sure if it was an issue with LightDM that is unfixable, but I did installed lightdm with its dependencies and restarted.
Guess what, it works and its beautiful and has the Trisquel logo and everything. Purging GDM and replacing with LightDM was fine and I hope that Trisquel 6.0 axes GDM alltogether.
The reason was LightDM does not work with orca or some other accessibility issue.
I agree that LightDM is much more pleasing to look at than GDM's outdated look and feel. Unfortunately I cannot get it to display its login screen in Brigantia even after having installed the lightdm package and the lightdm-gtk-greeter package. Will try to hunt for some error messages, but if anyone has any idea...
I couldn't too. I installed lightdm, set it to be the default Display Manager, rebooted and the screen went crazy -- it sort of fastly, repeatedly and irregularly alternated the boot messages screen with the DM screen, in which appeared only the mouse pointer.
-- automatically duplicated message --
I'm not sure about the outdated look and feel, but personally as a blind
trisquel user as long as it talks I could care less about what it looks
like, as I can't see it anyway. On 04/25/2012 08:19 PM, name at domain
wrote:
> I agree that LightDM is much more pleasing to look at than GDM's
> outdated look and feel. Unfortunately I cannot get it to display its
> login screen in Brigantia even after having installed the lightdm
> package and the lightdm-gtk-greeter package. Will try to hunt for
> some error messages, but if anyone has any idea...
I am a member!
Hi,
When Trisquel 6.0 comes out, it should have a talking light dm. If
you've been following the Orca list, you may know that my light dm
talked exactly once, but, this is something peculiar to my machine, as
it works for all those other blind Ubuntu 12.04 users. Hopefully, by
the time Trisquel 6.0 is ready for building, your mileage won't vary so
much.
Cheers,
Dave
On 04/27/2012 02:53 PM, kendell clark wrote:
> I'm not sure about the outdated look and feel, but personally as a
> blind trisquel user as long as it talks I could care less about what
> it looks like, as I can't see it anyway. On 04/25/2012 08:19 PM,
> name at domain wrote:
>> I agree that LightDM is much more pleasing to look at than GDM's
>> outdated look and feel. Unfortunately I cannot get it to display its
>> login screen in Brigantia even after having installed the lightdm
>> package and the lightdm-gtk-greeter package. Will try to hunt for
>> some error messages, but if anyone has any idea...
>
GUIs are for lusers. It all does the same in the end.
I think GDM is fine until LightDM becomes more "stable" with use. Similar to
how most moved from KDM to GDM.
Unless you do A LOT of installs doing it once should be no biggy. It
obviously sounds like you know what you're doing if you can switch it. If you
do a lot of installs just change the image from the orginal. It's the similar
process as modifiying a liveboot image.
GUIs are for lusers. It all does the same in the end.
I think GDM is fine until LightDM becomes more "stable" with use. Similar to how most moved from KDM to GDM.
Unless you do A LOT of installs doing it once should be no biggy. It obviously sounds like you know what you're doing if you can switch it. If you do a lot of installs just change the image from the orginal. It's the similar process as modifiying a liveboot image.
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