[xubuntu-users] lxdm

[J. Anthony Limon]

Pasi Lallinaho wrote:
> Daniel Herrera wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby
>> <mihamina at gulfsat.mg> wrote:
>>   
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> In replacement of GDM in XUbuntu,
>>>>> How about LXDM?
>>>>>         
>>>> An LXDE-team blog post about LXDM says that LXDM was only working on
>>>> Fedora, and that Ubuntu users may have issues with it.  If anyone is
>>>> willing to install it and give it a try, file bug reports for any
>>>> issues they experience, and perhaps even hack on it, please feel free
>>>> to do so.
>>>> LXDM is not currently available in the Ubuntu repositories, so you
>>>> would need to install and configure it on your own,
>>>>       
>>> Well...
>>> Slim is out of the repos too.
>>>     
>> I like Slim too, I think the latest release of GDM is kinda unstable,
>> and I don't really understand why is Feh a dependence.
>>   
> We need feh to set the GDM background. I don't like the new GDM that 
> much either, but it was the only choice.
>> Oh, by the way, GDM broke itself. Now I have a brownish login manager.
>>   
>>> Using Karmic right now, I am starting XFCE with starxfce4 :-)
>>>     
>> Heh, using console is great.
>>   
> Not for an average user, though.
>>   
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Just letting everyone know that I found a guy who packaged Slim in his 
PPA. https://launchpad.net/~stemp/+archive/xfce

I need to try it on my netbook because I removed gdm now it takes 
forever to start from 'startxfce4' - not sure why.

- J