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Re: Any issues to be expected by disabling elogind?

dummy@example.com (bgstack15) — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 21:13:22 +0000

I'm hardly technical in this regard, but to expand on what golinux just said, elogind helps manage user sessions, primarily for X desktop applications' ability to log out/shut down/etc.

Re: Any issues to be expected by disabling elogind?

dummy@example.com (golinux) — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 20:05:40 +0000

Removing it could bork desktoppy stuff

Re: Any issues to be expected by disabling elogind?

dummy@example.com (rolfie) — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 20:01:09 +0000

Despite the d on the end, elogind is a systemd free program, and not comparable to the Gentoo stuff. Look at post #12 in https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=2675.

When you remove elogind, I bet you will get issues with permissions.

When you search the forum for elogind and take a read through some threads you might get an idea why elogind is a good choice.

rolfie

Any issues to be expected by disabling elogind?

dummy@example.com (czeekaj) — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 08:13:20 +0000

I was reading the gentoo wiki. It sounds like I don't have many systemd dependent packages at least I hope I don't before i remove the package.
Any one know elogind's hard dependencies that exist?
I just ran

update-rc.d elogind disable

rebooted and it's fine. Should I expect any issues down the road? I can't find much on how it works or what it's actually required for besides gnome which I thought had something to do with gtk-2.0 and gtk-3.0. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Elogind

I'm running openbox, with a Xfce4-panel. slim doesn't seem to depend on it. So no problems logging back in. The user Gui is not broken and not dependent on it.