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[Hadmut Danisch <hadmut@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This is not a collection of single bugs to be fixed.

This is about the single wrong design decision to use lightdm although
it does not do its job.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/832657

Title:
  lightdm lacks important features

Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I am currently testing oneiric and wondered, why ubuntu decided to use
  lightdm instead of stable and reliable desktop managers like gdm.

  lightdm does not allow

  - to choose the language/locale settings
  - does not allow to choose the keyboard layout
  - does not provide a way to choose a different screen resolution (or run xrandr in setup scripts), which is needed since many of todays displays report highter resolutions than their panel actually has, and X11 usually chooses the highest resolution, which is really bad. 

  It is definitely not a good idea to replace gdm with lightdm. lightdm
  is not light, it is insufficient.

  regards

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: lightdm 0.9.3-0ubuntu6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-7.9-generic 3.0.0
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-7-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Aug 24 12:15:51 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110802.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: lightdm
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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