[pkg-fso-maint] Bug#579215: Bug#579215: nodm: Please make it a display-manager alternative

[Enrico Zini]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:37:15AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

> At the moment, when installing xdm, kdm and gdm, a debconf menu is
> provided to choose which of these should be the default.  When
> installing nodm on the same machine, the nodm display manager is now
> presenting the same menu, and it do not start automatically.
> 
> Please implement the same debconf menu in nodm as in the other display
> managers.

Makes sense. Is there a standard debconf snipped I can use?

> To make this feature very helpful, it would be great if it was
> possible to preseed the nodm user in debconf, to allow nodm to be set
> up automatically using preseeding.

It is already possible; is it not working for you?

  Template: nodm/user
  Type: string
  Default: root
  _Description: User to start a session for:
   Please enter the login name of the user that will automatically be
   logged into X by nodm.

One of the main points of nodm is to be automatically set up using
preseeding to allow for unattended installs in mobile phones, kiosk
machines, or other systems which lack a keyboard.


Ciao,

Enrico

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