[LightDM] Proposal: Drop ConsoleKit support from lightdm 1.14

[Robert Ancell]

I've made a branch [1] so we can test LightDM without ConsoleKit.

In doing this branch the most important issue this removal has shown is the
shutdown and restart functionality provided to greeters doesn't work if you
don't have logind installed. Open to ideas on what alternatives should be
used for systems that have neither ConsoleKit or logind (if they exist). I
guess the best option is to have the daemon provide methods for this to the
greeter.

--Robert

[1] lp:~robert-ancell/lightdm/no-console-kit

On 1 October 2014 08:41, Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I previously [1] raised the idea of dropping support for ConsoleKit from
> LightDM and would like to revisit this again. ConsoleKit is as far as I
> know a dead project and it seems likely that most distributions have
> switched to using logind (either from systemd or just using the interface).
> Does anyone have any opposition to dropping ConsoleKit support from LightDM
> 1.14?
>
> What this means:
> - LightDM will not register sessions with ConsoleKit even if it is there
> - LightDM will register sessions with logind if it is present (i.e. not a
> hard dependency, though you may have degraded functionality).
>
> Note that any systems using ConsoleKit can continue to use LightDM 1.10
> which will be supported until April 2019.
>
> --Robert
>
> [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/lightdm/2013-May/000377.html
>
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