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deltamalloc Apprentice
Joined: 18 Jan 2013 Posts: 279
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 12:21 pm Post subject: Display manager that works? |
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I've tried XDM and "slim", none of them work (see https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-949852.html ).
What can I use that will actually work? I'd like something simple and fast since this is an old computer and I'm running XFCE. |
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franzf Advocate
Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 4565
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 12:51 pm Post subject: |
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You might want to try lightdm with its gtk-greeter. |
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Jaglover Watchman
Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 8291 Location: Saint Amant, Acadiana
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deltamalloc Apprentice
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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That's brilliant.
Minimalistic, fast and doesn't even require a login manager. I hate bloated programs, this is just perfect. |
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deltamalloc Apprentice
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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 1:04 am Post subject: |
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franzf wrote: | You might want to try lightdm with its gtk-greeter. |
Even though I'm not going to use it I'm a curious person and I'd like to at least be able to do this. I can't get lightdm with gtk-greeter to work either, same problem as with slim and xdm. |
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rmzelnick n00b
Joined: 03 Feb 2013 Posts: 24
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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 1:33 am Post subject: |
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@deltamalloc
I had the same exact problem with slim. Make sure that dbus is on your running level.
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rc-update add dbus default
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Also in the /etc/slim.conf file you need to comment:
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login_cmd exec /bin/bash -login /usr/share/slim/Xsession %session
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login_cmd exec /bin/bash -login ~/.xinitrc %session
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Use F11 (when running slim) to change the sessions too!
Also create a .xinitrc file based on the sample in /usr/share/doc/slim-1.3.2-r7/xinitrc.sample |
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deltamalloc Apprentice
Joined: 18 Jan 2013 Posts: 279
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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rmzelnick wrote: | @deltamalloc
I had the same exact problem with slim. Make sure that dbus is on your running level.
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rc-update add dbus default
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Also in the /etc/slim.conf file you need to comment:
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login_cmd exec /bin/bash -login /usr/share/slim/Xsession %session
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And uncomment:
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login_cmd exec /bin/bash -login ~/.xinitrc %session
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Use F11 (when running slim) to change the sessions too!
Also create a .xinitrc file based on the sample in /usr/share/doc/slim-1.3.2-r7/xinitrc.sample |
Thanks! This actually worked for me, now I can use slim to login successfully. |
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