Bug#762757: gdm3: please don't depend on gnome-shell

[Simon McVittie]

Control: tags 762757 + wontfix

On 25/09/14 00:29, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Is gnome-shell really needed for gdm to run?

Yes. gdm's current user interface is just GNOME Shell running in a
special mode: the fallback non-Shell greeter (which was used by default
in Debian 7) was removed between 3.8 and 3.10. I suspect this should be
closed as "not a bug", but for now I'm just tagging it wontfix.

For non-GNOME environments, you might be better off with lightdm.

    S