[arch-general] xdm and awesomewm incompatibilty

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 2013-09-28 at 21:05 +0200, Jakub Klinkovský wrote:
> On 28.09.13 at 20:12, Szymon Szydełko wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 6:40 PM, ashwin <ashwin.chn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > >  What i am looking for is just the
> > > login manager and its dependecies and not the entire DE. I assume kdm
> > > does the same thing.
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > If you can cope with  GTK+3 being pulled, try LightDM
> > 
> > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lightdm
> > 
> > Szymon Szydełko
> 
> You don't need gtk3 to use lightdm, it depends on the "greeter":
> https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/lightdm-gtk2-greeter/

IIRC I used some default greeter, before I installed a greeter. I guess
it's possible to get some simple greeter, without installing an
additional greeter.