[oe] GDM alternative?

[Stephen Arnold]

And I think I just convinced myself I need to get slim working...


On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Stephen Arnold
<stephen.arnold42 at gmail.com>wrote:

> It's a bit more subtle than just "obvious advantage" since the deps are
> different, config options are different, etc.  Slim is probably "lighter"
> than lxdm, in both features and dependency bloat.  The former pretty
> depends only on X11 libs and png (with optional pam and dbus/consolekit
> integration).  OTOH, lxdm has about the same pam/consolekit features, but
> depends on gtk[2|3].  So, a bit fancier and a little more bloat.  Which one
> do you think is easier to theme?  ;)
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Adam Lee <adam at gumstix.com> wrote:
>
>> Are there any obvious advantages over one another between LXDM and Slim?
>> I love how LXDM doesn't require complicated authentication framework like
>> GDM.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Stephen Arnold
>> <stephen.arnold42 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> > Is there any interest in reviving slim?  I'm using it on gentoo-arm on
>> > several devices; works just like x86.  Since I haven't tried it or
>> > otherwise looked at it in oe yet, I have no idea why it's in a
>> non-working
>> > state.  That said, it was on my todo list until I noticed lxdm, so I'll
>> > probably check it out at some point; never a bad idea to have another
>> > lightweight alternative...
>> >
>> > Steve
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Adam Lee <adam.yh.lee at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Andreas, LXDM from meta-oe works well with minimal configuration on my
>> > part
>> > > :)
>> > > I didn't have to add another layer to satisfy dependencies. Thanks :)
>> > >
>> > > Adam
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Andreas Müller <
>> > > schnitzeltony at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Adam Lee <adam.yh.lee at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > > > > Thank you Koen and Andreas. That has been really helped in
>> clearing
>> > up
>> > > my
>> > > > > confusion and setting the path forward.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > I think I will try LXDM in meta-misc in meta-oe. Is there any
>> special
>> > > > > configuration that I should be aware of (other then setting it as
>> the
>> > > > > graphical init manager)?
>> > > >
>> > > > meta-misc is my personal playground - it might have dependencies to
>> > > > other layers and some things might not work as expected...
>> > > >
>> > > > Andreas
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