Re: [gdm-list] gdmdynamic questions

["Yan Seiner" <yan seiner com>]

On Thu, October 2, 2008 9:09 am, Brian Cameron wrote:
>> I know this has come up before; is there some architectural reason why
>> gdm
>> won't support autologin on an arbitrary display?  Or would it just
>> require
>> gobs of coding or something?  I say this never having looked at gdm code
>> at all, so I know not whereof I speak.
>
> No technical reason.  In fact, some of the work has been done, I think.
> If you want to try it out, there are some patches in this bug report:
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336174
>
> Nobody ever got the patches to production quality, but it will at least
> point you towards the relevant code.  If you or anyone wants to help
> finish off this work, we could get this fixed in the 2.20 branch since
> it does seem to be an often requested feature.

Thanks Brian.  From looking at the bug report, it doesn't look too
difficult.  I have to set up a development environment for gnome, but
again, not too difficult.

I live in the PNWC so with winter coming, I'll have less outdoor stuff to
do.  At least until the snow builds up in the mountains....  :-)

I'll take a shot at it.

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