Re: [gdm-list] update

[Mike Oliver <Mike Oliver Sun COM>]

Bob Doolittle wrote:
> Mike Oliver wrote:
> > Brian Cameron wrote:
> > > Bob Doolittle wrote:
> > > > I'd like to understand this better.  We make extensive use of
> > > > the PostLoginScriptDir, PreSessionScriptDir, PostSessionScriptDir,
> > > > and DisplayInitDir hooks in gdm.conf.  Will those remain supported?
> > > >       
> > > It's good to highlight which configuration options that you depend
> > > on, so I appreciate that.  Does Sun Ray support them in per-display
> > > fashion?
> > >     
> > Sun Ray doesn't use the per-display feature today but that's what it
> > really should be using.  We expect to switch to using per-display
> > scripts as soon as we can depend on the distro's native GDM to be
> > up-rev enough to support dynamic X server creation and destruction.
>
> I agree although reluctantly.  A downside of doing
> a lot of configuration (even linking) at dynamic
> session creation is the behavior that occurs when
> there's an out-of-resource condition (e.g. no disk
> space).  The less we have to do "on the fly" the
> more robust our solution.

Yes, agreed.  It would be nice if we could use a "per-class-of-display"
approach instead but I don't think that feature exists today (I'll be
happy to be wrong) so per-display is the best hook we have to hang this
kind of processing on.

Mike.
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