[systemd-devel] GDM service file (was: systemd unit files for Debian based systems)

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 22.06.12 13:47, Paul Menzel (paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net) wrote:

> Am Montag, den 18.06.2012, 21:56 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel:
> 
> > Am Montag, den 18.06.2012, 17:48 +0200 schrieb Lennart Poettering:
> > > On Sat, 16.06.12 10:39, Paul Menzel wrote:
> 
> Dear systemd folks,
> 
> 
> [… also asking for service file for GDM … ]
> 
> > > GDM should not be too hard, and will do this eventually myself if nobody
> > > beats me to it. The reason why I haven't done this yet is that Fedora
> > > currently uses "prefdm" for starting the DMs and we need to get rid of
> > > that in all packages at the same time.
> > 
> > Understood. Thank you for doing that.
> 
> just as a follow up for those interested there is a service file for GDM
> in the systemd-arch-units repository [7].
> 
>         systemd-arch-units$ more service/gdm.service 
>         [Unit]
>         Description=Gnome Display Manager
>         After=systemd-user-sessions.service
>         
>         [Service]
>         ExecStart=/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon
>         
>         [Install]
>         WantedBy=graphical.target
> 
> This does not yet seem to be included in Arch Linux upstream [8]. Any
> comments on that? In Debian the name of the GDM3 binary is `gdm3` and
> not `gdm`.
> 
>         debian-system:~$ ls /usr/sbin/gdm*
>         /usr/sbin/gdm3
> 
> […]
> 

BTW, as a follow-up to this. In this Fedora feature page you find what
I'd propose to use as .service file for the various display managers:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DisplayManagerRework

Lennart

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