SLiM is an acronym for Simple Login Manager. Lightweight and easily configurable, SLiM requires minimal dependencies. SLiM is very easy to install and customize, and it looks pretty nice. SLiM theme consists of 2 images and a configuration file. [easy-cusomization-1] [easy-cusomization-2] It …

This login manager looks pretty cool, I mean better than the actual used one (no to beautiful, basically), maybe can be a future replacement candidate for the lightdm one Just some notes: it is all compatible? (bugs can happen in the desktop if not, like permission denied or unable to mount disks…

[image] Thanatermesis: This login manager looks pretty cool, I mean better than the actual used one Yup. [image] Thanatermesis: maybe can be a future replacement candidate for the lightdm one Not sure about that. It's old and unmaintained. [image] Thanatermesis: it is all compati…

Unfortunately there's a few issues on slim that you listed that doesn't makes it a good candidate, also unmaintained [image] endarkenment: You could change greeter. There are a few available. Yes I was always thinking to change the greeter at least, just didn't found time for it yet https:…

[image] Thanatermesis: maybe @TheTechRobo would like to work on it My C skills are still pretty bad, but I can take a look. What issues specifically are blocking its inclusion in elive?

[image] Thanatermesis: lightdm is not strictly required to be gtk No it isn't and we don't use the gtk version. If in need of customizing: Install "lightdm-settings" and run it using sudo privileges from the commandline (or edit "/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf directly) It has a GUI and quite a…

[image] TheTechRobo: My C skills are still pretty bad, but I can take a look. What issues specifically are blocking its inclusion in elive? 4 of them are reported by me: GitHub · Where software is built not sure which ones are "blocking" right now but if you feel motivated you can fork the pr…

[image] Thanatermesis: not sure to understand (and I didn't investigated big on lightdm yet) but if im not wrong, the greeter (interface) of lightdm uses a gtk version: ~ ❯❯❯ dpl | grep greeter ii lightdm-gtk-greeter Yeah, it would look that way but that isn't the only available greeter. …

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