[LightDM] Is it time to re-factor yet :^)

[Bryce Harrington]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:15:33PM +1000, Robert Ancell wrote:
> On 17 May 2011 01:20, j. apple muncy <j.apple.muncy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Or how to avoid the whirlwind.
> >
> > Greetings everyone.
> >
> > I observe the coding of lighdm is well under way and I'm thinking the
> > pressure to meet the releases of 11.11 is probably going to build without
> > bounds.
> >
> > Is there time now to consider the inclusion of some of the more offbeat use
> > cases?
> > 1: Headless(no monitor, keyboard, or monitor)
> 
> Works now.
> 
> > 2: True headless(no video card) but Xvfb.
> 
> Pass, I guess if X supports it?  Bryce is probably the right person to
> know this one.

X certainly supports it, but I'm having trouble imagining cases where
there'd be need for a display manager.  Isn't this mostly for automated
testing or situations where you don't have a proper X session?  Seems
like you'd want to be disabling the display manager in these cases.

Bryce