[arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

[Matthew Monaco]

On 05/08/2012 09:53 AM, Seblu wrote:
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Christian Hesse <list at eworm.de> wrote:
>> Any thoughts on that?
> 
> I was interested by your suggestion as slim user since 2 years.
> Consolekit integration (and my ugly workaround) is my only issue with
> it.
> 
> So i took the time to test this light login manager, and my conclusion
> is : It's not light.
> There are dependencies to gtk3 and qt without any greeter installed.
> gtk greater needs gnome-common, kde greater needs kdelibs, so if I
> have to use kde or gnome i would look to kdm or gdm instead of a not
> so light lightdm.
> 

I don't think those deps in the AUR are correct. You can ship lightdm without
the libraries in which case it won't depend on the graphical libs. I think some
other distributions ship the lightdm binary itself, then have separate packages
for the greeter libs. Also, I have the gtk greeter installed and no
gnome-common, just gtk3 and glib2.

Right now the biggest issue with LightDM IMO is that it uses AccountsService --
if installed -- with no config to force it's own users.conf file.

> I don't think we can compare slim and lightdm ! I tested xdm (with
> xdm-arch-theme), it's light and have consolekit integration.
> Tobias has just released slim with consolekit integration  and it
> works great (except for the omission of removing pam ck connector).
> 
> Cheers,
> 


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