[arch-general] xdm and awesomewm incompatibilty

[Mattias Giese]

Heya,

On 09/28/13 18:40, ashwin wrote:

> I see that xdm and awesome wm dont go well together. It used to work well
> before. I see after recent package update. awesome wm crashes often.
> After killing xdm, it is back normal again. Has anyone else experienced
> this ? If xdm is buggy, then can someone suggest a good login manager for
> X ? I see gdm brings in gnome-shell and loads of other packages which is
> not directly related to login manager. 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.
> The awesome wm & xdm version in my pc is:
> awesome 3.5.1-3
> xorg-xdm 1.1.11-4

The simplest alternative would be slim. It worked fine with awesome and 
now works fine with i3, for me at least.

Regards,

Mattias