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GNOME GDM Now Disables The X11/X.Org Session By Default


Merged yesterday to the GNOME Display Manager 'GDM' codebase is disabling of the X11/X.Org session by default as the first step toward deprecating GNOME's X11 session support.

The x11 session launch functionality is likely to make a comeback before 49.rc and if that does not end up being the case we will reevaluate and might revert the defaults back to True." For the moment this X11 session support in GDM can be restored by editing the GDM configuration file ( gdm.conf) and uncommenting the line for XorgEnable=true.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.

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