[Bug 1298715] Review Request: xlogin - Automatic X login service for systemd

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298715



--- Comment #2 from Raphael Groner <projects.rg@xxxxxxxx> ---
Hi Zbigniew,
thanks for the explanation.

Upstream writes as an answer to my request about documentation enhancement
(issue 8):

Currently, we don't install the README and there is no man page. I am unsure
whether writing one would be worthwhile as xlogin was really designed as a
stop-gap solution. Using .xinitrc-defined sessions is a bit weird in a systemd
setting and the way we managing environment variables (e.g. DISPLAY) and bus
addresses shows just how imperfect the current landscape is. In my opinion this
has more to do with lack of consensus in the systemd camp than with xlogin,
which is also indicated by the fact that xlogin has been the best `workaround'
for about four years now!

The part of xlogin that is not a hack is the x-daemon script which actually
does something useful in an elegant way. This script, however, is under 100
bytes(!) so maybe it can serve as its own documentation. Admitted, every line
uses something clever and non-trivial. In the end, it just spawns X, passing
the command line arguments, and terminates when X is started. Does anyone
desire documentation for that?

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