[systemd-devel] Bug in systemd? Running X without a display manager

Alan Stern stern at rowland.harvard.edu
Tue Aug 28 08:16:20 PDT 2012


On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Colin Guthrie wrote:

> 'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 28/08/12 13:10 did gyre and gimble:
> > gdm, but it's nature will register sessions with type=x11 and login with
> > type=tty - that's the only reason I suggested gdm as a basis here..
> > arguably it would make more sense to tweak login (or perhaps agetty as
> > it already has autologin options etc?) to do this task.
> 
> gdm, _by_ it's nature....

If you want to be even more accurate: "gdm, by _its_ nature..."

"it's" is a contraction of "it is", whereas "its" is a possessive.

Alan Stern



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