On 05/08/2012 09:53 AM, Seblu wrote:
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Christian Hesse <list@eworm.de> wrote:
Any thoughts on that?
I was interested by your suggestion as slim user since 2 years. Consolekit integration (and my ugly workaround) is my only issue with it.
So i took the time to test this light login manager, and my conclusion is : It's not light. There are dependencies to gtk3 and qt without any greeter installed. gtk greater needs gnome-common, kde greater needs kdelibs, so if I have to use kde or gnome i would look to kdm or gdm instead of a not so light lightdm.
I don't think those deps in the AUR are correct. You can ship lightdm without the libraries in which case it won't depend on the graphical libs. I think some other distributions ship the lightdm binary itself, then have separate packages for the greeter libs. Also, I have the gtk greeter installed and no gnome-common, just gtk3 and glib2. Right now the biggest issue with LightDM IMO is that it uses AccountsService -- if installed -- with no config to force it's own users.conf file.
I don't think we can compare slim and lightdm ! I tested xdm (with xdm-arch-theme), it's light and have consolekit integration. Tobias has just released slim with consolekit integration and it works great (except for the omission of removing pam ck connector).
Cheers,