[arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

Stephen E. Baker baker.stephen.e at gmail.com
Tue May 8 08:26:32 EDT 2012


On 08/05/2012 5:14 AM, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 08/05/12 18:35, Christian Hesse wrote:
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> slim has some known security weaknesses (for example it has no separate
>> greeter process thus the graphical interface is running with super user
>> privileges) and a lot of open bugs. Additionally it does not support latest
>> packages (consolekit and friends) out of the box.
>> Though lately the SVN got some commits and a new version has been released
>> the arch package has not been updated since it was flagged out of date in
>> February.
>> [snip]
>
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?string=slim
>
> Seems to be a severe lack of bug reports made if there are so many
> issues with it...
I had lots of issues when I used slim, but replaced it easily lxdm.  
slim isn't a default and there are lots of choices available (including 
other lightweight ones) so I don't see how adding lightdm and dropping 
slim are connected.
> Allan



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