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Duffy: Improving the Fedora boot experience

Duffy: Improving the Fedora boot experience

Posted Mar 13, 2013 22:52 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Duffy: Improving the Fedora boot experience by ovitters
Parent article: Duffy: Improving the Fedora boot experience

Essentially, if you are using a SSD and no LVM, it is likely that your system itself will boot faster than your login time from GDM.


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Duffy: Improving the Fedora boot experience

Posted Mar 14, 2013 9:59 UTC (Thu) by Aissen (subscriber, #59976) [Link]

In this case auto-login with automatic screen locking is very useful. Something I use with kdm/KDE, but can't seem to be done with gdm/Gnome.

Duffy: Improving the Fedora boot experience

Posted Mar 14, 2013 10:30 UTC (Thu) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950) [Link]

File a bug please. Sounds interesting to support.

Duffy: Improving the Fedora boot experience

Posted Mar 14, 2013 10:40 UTC (Thu) by Aissen (subscriber, #59976) [Link]

I went ahead and created an account on Gnome's bugzilla, only to find this was not new:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469571

Duffy: Improving the Fedora boot experience

Posted Mar 14, 2013 10:49 UTC (Thu) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950) [Link]

GDM almost fully handles the lock screen now, IIRC. So I hope it is now way easier to implement. Before we relied on gnome-screensaver, etc. That is all messy. GDM in 3.8 still has a fallback thing because we removed it too late.

I'll try and convince people that this makes sense. Which I guess means convincing Lennart to convince others :P

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