Re: Beowulf XFCE Display Manager

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 15:55:47 +0000

Sorry I didn't respond sooner. I passed the message along and we're working on it. Package dependencies will be adjusted to fix this.

Re: Beowulf XFCE Display Manager

dummy@example.com (SmokeyGrey) — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 11:59:15 +0000

How about if I phrase this as a simple, concise question?

Why is XFCE pulling in both Slim and LightDM in Beowulf? This seems messy and unnecessary.

Beowulf XFCE Display Manager

dummy@example.com (SmokeyGrey) — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:21:31 +0000

On my Beowulf XFCE+Slim+Consolekit installation, a recent update to xfce4-session pulled in elogind and lightdm through

Recommends: 
  libpam-elogind
Recommends: light-locker

Meanwhile, task-xfce-desktop pulls in slim and consolekit through

Depends: slim
Recommends: libpolkit-backend-consolekit-1-0

I assume the addition of light-locker is to make up for the removal of a dependency on xscreensaver. A cleaner way to do this would be to use slimlock. Unfortunately, as packaged, xfce doesn't use slimlock. To fix this, the file

/usr/bin/xflock4

which is part of xfce4-session, can be changed from

for lock_cmd in \
    "xscreensaver-command -lock" \
    "light-locker-command --lock" \
    "gnome-screensaver-command --lock" \
    "mate-screensaver-command --lock"
do
    $lock_cmd >/dev/null 2>&1 && exit
done

for lock_cmd in \
    "slimlock" \
    "xscreensaver-command -lock" \
    "light-locker-command --lock" \
    "gnome-screensaver-command --lock" \
    "mate-screensaver-command --lock"
do
    $lock_cmd >/dev/null 2>&1 && exit
done

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