[arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

[Christian Hesse]

Christian Hesse <list at eworm.de> on Tue, 2012/05/08 10:35:
> Any thoughts on that?

Ok, some notes from myself...

There were two reasons why I did not use lxdm:

* I thought it did not work with challenge response authentication via pam.
  Obviously this is not true: You can enter the password only only, but it is
  tested for every pam prompt. So I can enter unix password or oath token -
  both work.
  The only "problem" is that it does not show the pam message ("One-time
  password (OATH) for ..." - but I can live with that.

* I had trouble interactively selecting a session from lxdm. It took me some
  time to find the cause: The greeter did not give session type to lxdm when
  no language selection dropdown was shown.
  I fixed that (see https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29814), now everything
  works fine.

Additionally it seems to fix a problem with mouse cursor...

So for now I will stick with lxdm I think. Thus I am fine with not having
lightdm in the official repos.
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