[oe] GDM alternative?

[Adam Lee]

Thanks Stephen for your response :)
I think I will give slim a spin this weekend on my desktop. Ultimately a
lighter DM will be appreciated on my embedded boards.

Adam


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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