FWIW, +1 for lightdm. I switched in order to get keyboard and mouse navigation to the greeter options. For integration with xfce, I did need to perform a few extra steps. From memory, the 'switch user' feature needed to be altered to use 'dm-tool' instead of 'gdmflexiserver', I ended up totally removing xfce4-power-manager and its panel applet in favor acpid-only and the xfce battery applet, and probably other stuff that I just don't remember.
The newer versions of Lightdm (I think its available in the testing repo) allows for a webkit-based greeter for more eye-candy if that's of interest to you, and also offers a gui configuration tool that's pretty neat. There's a 'light-locker' screen locking program that installs along with lightdm, which includes a protection feature against X-M-Fn switching. A complaint I have against it is that it doesn't seem to offer anything other than a blank screen (no screensaver visual feedback or eye-candy), and it doesn't switch to a greeter screen until a delay after one begins typing, so one can easily misinterpret the screen lock as some form of BSOD (blank screen of death). On 2016-05-08 10:14, fsmithred wrote: > On 05/08/2016 08:24 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > So I google etc/slim.conf to fid out what it is, and on the first > > link I find Warning: The SliM project has been abandoned (the > > project homepage is down, leaving a github mirror), > > > > That's on the archwiki > > > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SLiM > > > > They also warn that it's incompatible with systemd. > > > > I hope that's an arch-specific abandonment. > > The gentoo page doesn't have this warning. > > > > -- hendrik > > > > > > > The github mirror has a readme that says: "Note: This repository was > used as backup source and is no longer maintained." > > > I'm using lightdm here. Didn't have to do anything special to get it > to work without systemd. Don't even have libsystemd0 installed on > this box. > > -fsr -- hkp://keys.gnupg.net CA45 09B5 5351 7C11 A9D1 7286 0036 9E45 1595 8BC0 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
