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Console display manager based on CDM

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Tutorial on installing auto-activation

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commented

Hi!

I know that for XDM I would install the package and configure the init system to make it run XDM's initscript during the boot process. I am unsure how to achieve more or less the same results with console-tdm. Are there any docs I am missing out?

Thanks and best, Sebastian

commented

I have never used XDM, so I'm not really sure what you mean by auto-activation.

If you want to start console-tdm after login in, you can follow the documentation on the ArchWiki (I will add it in the README).

If I did not answer your question, let me know

Simon

commented

Hi!

by auto-activiation I mean that once you passed bootloader and initramfs the first thing to ask for credentials is the display manager, and it's asking for the credentials of the unpriviliged user you want to use the session with. With the graphical display managers I have seen that's done thtough init system configuration that can be activated and deactivated.

I have actually read that Arch wiki page before. with my prirt background from a graphical display managers that page is still rather puzzling to me, e.g. ~/.bash_profile is used without saying which user (i.e. root or each unprivileged one), when to use that and when to use ~/.xinitrc instead, who is interpreting the latter, etc. The article only helps if you actually know everything already in a way, which is suboptimal... at least to me :)

Best, Sebastian

commented

I updated the README to include the required steps to get a working setup. Let me know if you have any questions.

commented

Hi!

I have finally given the docs and usage a real try. So I have a few comments now that may apply to other users new to your software and display manager setups:

  • "It has a helper script, called tdmctl to manage sessions."
    Maybe change this to "[tdm] sessions" to not be confused with X sessions at that point.
  • "is start in the shell"
    Typo "start[ed]"
  • "If the path is not an executable file, the session is always counted as inactive."
    How did we get from sessions to paths and executables? Is there a bridge sentence missing?
  • "In your .xinitrc file, you must then replace the exec line with tdm --xstart, which will start your X session."
    I didn't have that file at all, so I could not replace anything. Maybe spell out exec tdm --xstart here
  • My bash ignored .profile so I needed to use .bash_profile instead. Maybe mention .bash_profile in the docs as well, maybe upfront (due to the order in man bash).
  • It took me a while to figure that .profile and .xinitrc are both needed.
    Maybe migrate "Usage" to 1. .... 2. .... 3. ....

Best, Sebastian