Might be a good move
Might be a good move
Posted Jun 25, 2025 7:45 UTC (Wed) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)In reply to: Might be a good move by linuxrocks123
Parent article: GNOME deepens systemd dependencies
> DBUS to solve a problem that xdm has been solving without DBUS since 1988.
No it has not. Tried to do a 2FA login with xdm lately? Attach a Bluetooth keyboard? Turn on the Sticky Mods a11y helper so that a user who doesn't have the usual number of hands and/or fingers can log in?
You want to rewrite all of that to work directly as XDM plugins instead, be my guest, but I'd rather use whatever everybody else is using. Fewer bugs that slip through the cracks that way, not to mention vastly less pointless work.
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