http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/3180/
However when the gdm login screen pops up, you type in your username a password and then sit there waiting for gnome to load. So, If gdm could automatically begin loading the default desktop environoment whilst waiting for the user to input their username and password, this extra waiting time whilst the desktop environment loads could be reduced or eliminated.

In essence, the main purpose behind this idea is to standardise the time taken for a particular user to boot ubuntu: ie is does not matter if you logged in immediately or 20 seconds late, your desktop will still be usable at the same moment.

If the user selects to load a different desktop environment at the login screen, then simply unload the default and start loading the next one when the user logs in as normal.

[444 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #3180


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[23 votes] Solution #3: Allow services to start after login screen


]]> en-us Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:27:04 +0000 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/3180/ Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:36:30 +0000 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:46:03 +0000 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:07:43 +0000 It doesn't seem a good idea to preload GNOME]]> Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:51:20 +0000 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:14:29 +0000
+1 for tomaszx though, probably pretty hard to make a sane implementation. ]]> Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:46:39 +0000 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:03:39 +0000
"It's quite inviable for us that have multiple desktops"

True, but you are not the majority, and I think this is a situation that GDM could detect anyway (ie: if you have multiple desktop installed, do nothing, else preload and cache some basic GNOME .so files).]]> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:16:22 +0000 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:53:32 +0000 My computers only have one user - me. GDM should at least relate to that, as a workaround"

And root]]> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:57:49 +0000 auto-login and lock the screen immediately

You can try putting the line:
gnome-screensaver-command --lock

into your .xinitrc or .xsession file and enabling automatic login (no promisses, haven't tested that)]]> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:53:05 +0000 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:36:10 +0000
On my current desktop there are 2 users. We both use gnome but our desktop setups are completly different. This idea can't work with this type of situation. There is no way to for the system to know what to load until it kows who is logging in.]]> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:49:10 +0000 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:04:58 +0000
It's a very good idea.]]> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:53:24 +0000
Note: I don't know much about the boot process.

if you boot ubuntu in CLI mode you see that you can input your username/password long before the boot process is complete. So what do we actually need to get an early(during bood) gdm up? of course we need the kernel and X, we definitely don't need networking or sound for this.

So the user can input his username/password while the system is booting up, and when the boot process is complete the login process automatically starts with the info the user gave it.

The only bad thing I can imagine about this would be the case in which the user enters a wrong username/password, the system wouldn't be able to verify them in some cases(if the file containing the passwords is on some remote NFS server or something) but those cases should be fairly rare, and people who use them won't complain when they are told "sorry wrong password" after the boot process is complete.]]> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:11:29 +0000 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:35:19 +0000
It may not take that long for GNOME or KDE or whatever to load (~15s for my computer to get to a usable GNOME+Compiz desktop), but any amount of waiting is too long if the computer's been sitting at the login screen for several minutes.]]> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:15:27 +0000
I posted my idea. Already log one user in and automatically lock with screensaver. For a single user system that's the most convinient. Unfortunatly it got a negative rating.

Yours,
Kay]]> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:33:51 +0000 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:02:44 +0000
Currently GDM's configuration GUI allows a user to be logged in automatically (either immediately, or after a timer expires). An other option could be added to compliment this, that would lock the screen after the user is automatically logged in.]]> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:49:00 +0000