[arch-general] xdm and awesomewm incompatibilty

[ashwin]

On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 21:38:42 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> 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.

It failed to work without a greeter. I installed lightdm-gtk3-greeter and 
now it is working. This greeter does not bring in lot of dependencies as 
in the case of gdm. The dependecies for this package are just lightdm and 
gtk. Only issue i am seeing is icon are missing and it shows a `x` in its 
place. I see it has xdmcp support (cool). Thanks for all for showing me 
lightdm.


with regards,
ashwin