alternative for kdm and gdm

[mzet]

I'm using fluxbox and I don't want to install all the stuff that comes with either kdm and gdm, but I want to have something that looks nice (not like xdm). Do You know any alternatives?

[at240]

entrance
qingy

xdm can be made to look beautiful, I think---I'm sure I've seen instructions somewhere on these forums...

EDIT: here we are
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-27 ... ight-.html

[pem]

qingy is pretty nice.
entrance is based on e17 libraries (very animated).

POST EDIT: I've been raced! Sorry for the double post.

[VoVaN]

How about this: http://slim.berlios.de/

[pem]

How about this: http://slim.berlios.de/

Thanks, it's a terrible piece of software
It has now replaced my buggy gdm-2.14.

[mzet]

yeah SLiM also looks good, but I've already installed Entrance. Unfortunatelly I have problem with it. I added it to my default runlevel and set DISPLAYMANAGER variable in rc.conf to entrance. After rebooting it seems that entrance has stuck in an infinite loop. In logs I found this (repeated many times):

May 9 14:46:54 localhost entrance: Debug: ipc_title = /var/lib/entrance_ipc_6628
May 9 14:46:54 localhost entrance: entrance_ipc_init: Success
May 9 14:46:54 localhost entrance: Warning: No users found.
May 9 14:47:06 localhost entrance: Cannot initialize requested display ":0". Exiting.
May 9 14:47:06 localhost entranced: The session has ended normally.

[at240]

@mzet

After replying yesterday I actually tried out qingy for the first time, and found it really good. I shan't be using entrance any more. So it won't exactly solve your problem with entrance (which I can't help you with, unfortunately), but maybe you should give qingy a shot?

[mzet]

I've also tried qingy yesterday (it works nad looks just fine) but I want to try out entrance too.