RFC: GDM in Karmic

[Jim Campbell]

Hi All,

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:15 AM, vidd<vidd at crosslink.net> wrote:
> It should also be noted that the version of SLiM in the
> repos is over 2 years old
> We need a MOTU to upload version 1.3.1 so it can be
> properly evaluated
> http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2663
>
> thank you
> vidd
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Steve Dodier
> To: Xubuntu Development Discussion
> Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 11:27 AM
> Subject: Re: RFC: GDM in Karmic
>
>
> The bugs listed in Debian
> (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=slim)
> and in Ubuntu
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/slim/) would
> need to be fixed before, especially since there are
> security bugs.
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

As an FYI, Fedora includes the new GDM in their Xfce spin, but they
also include all of those GNOME deps.  I tried out the live CD, and
entering "metacity --replace" replaces xfwm4 with metacity.

Jim