[Bug 550308] Re: Please remove from the archive

[Daniel Richard G.]

Xubuntu sorely needs a better option for x-display-manager. gdm-2.20 was
tremendously helpful to have, simply because the alternatives are awful:

gdm - heavy GNOME dependencies post-2.20
kdm - heavy KDE dependencies
lxdm - pretty, lightweight deps, but hard-codes xauth to ~/.Xauthority (*)
slim - no reboot/halt option, unmaintained since late 2008, buggy (e.g. bug #240098)
wdm - unmaintained since 2005, hard-codes ~/.Xauthority
xdm - ugly, dated, no session selection, no reboot/halt option

(*) Hard-coding the X11 auth file to ~/.Xauthority is bad with networked
home directories; see bug #558765

So far, lxdm seems like the most promising option. (I don't suppose the
Xfce folks have regained any interest in developing xfdm?)

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Please remove from the archive
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