On 05/08/2016 05:21 PM, Boruch Baum <boruch_b...@gmx.com> wrote:
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used as backup source and is no longer maintained."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
My vote is also for lightdm, it allows you to switch the
desktop-environment, the language and the keyboard configuration.
Cheers,
Aitor.
P.D.- I'm trying with the beta of gnuinos, but debmirror doesn't work :(
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