[arch-general] Slim login manager is logging everything

[Eric Bélanger]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Ananda Samaddar <ananda at samaddar.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm using Slim as my login manager and it's logging absolutely
> everything.  Things like gstreamer and alsa errors.  This is making the
> log file huge, of the order of 8 gb when compressed.  Can anyone think
> of a solution?  I could always use the hack of putting the logfile
> in /tmp but I don't want to do that.  /var is not on a separate
> partition and I'm not prepared to re-partition my system.  Obviously
> with such large logfiles I'm getting performance issues.
>
> I'm an XFCE user so I'd like to avoid kdm and gdm. Are are there any
> other alternative X11 login apps other than xdm that don't depend on
> GNOME or KDE if I can't fix my issue with Slim?
>
> thanks,
>
> Ananda
>

You can try qingy.