On 05/31/17 00:30, Rick Leir wrote: > > > as my cursory searches show, one needs to have a "greeter" installed > > Thanks for telling me, I had not heard of "greeter"s (embarrassed). > Even though I remember FC6. Your advice is most welcome. > > Black screen .. that was my problem, and I was deep into X11 logs > trying to find the fix. Do you think there should be a dependency so a > greeter of some sort will normally get installed? I am spoiled from a > few years of using the slick Ubuntu UI's. Now that may change, as I > hear of drastic changes in that camp. No, I don't think there should be a dependency that a greeter is installed since it is documented that you can use lightdm without a greeter if you have an autologin setup. > > Also, gtk could be a bit more defensive. Maybe I should get involved. > The design probably uses Dependency Injection, and I would be inclined > to code in some checks so that a friendly message goes in the log > before a crash due to a missing / null dependency. I have done c++ UI > code in the past, but I might be a bit rusty. > Cheers --Rick > -- > Sorry for being brief. Alternate email is rickleir at yahoo dot com I am equally brief, but that is due to it being 2AM. :-) -- I'm jet lagged. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
