[systemd-devel] Should systemd-logind provide a DM-independent specification for per seat autologin settings and others?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 13.09.13 09:14, Laércio Benedito Sivali de Sousa (lbsousajr at gmail.com) wrote:

> Hi guys!
> 
> With systemd-logind, we finally have a "canonical" way to implement
> multiseat in Linux. As current display managers implement completely
> logind's protocol for automatic multiseat support, per seat configuration
> in these DMs is almost unneeded.

I am not convinced this is really material for logind, since we wouldn't
do anything with it... And it's really not a configuration store for
other services. dconf might be that, but certainly not systemd/logind.

> However, even with complete automatic multiseat support, some per seat
> settings are still valuable in DMs, namely:
> 
> * Autologin settings for each seat: enable/disable, set user/password, set
> autologin delay.
> * Customize display server (X, Mir, Wayland/Weston) command line for each
> seat.

(Side note: systemd/logind is not supported by Ubuntu (only an outdated
fork of logind was incorporated into it), and Mir is not supported by on
anything but Ubuntu. Hence Mir is irrelevant to us.)

Lennart

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