Simple Login Display Manager for Debian?

patrick295767 · 12-31-2011, 04:27 AM

Hello,

I am looking for a smartphone an alternative to the nodm.

xdm and wdm are light-weight, but not so much what I want. They also have too much issues and wdm is not any longer in the repositories of debian stable.

Would you eventually know alternative to xdm or wdm which are intended to debian/ubuntu? xdm is outdated (no webpage exists anymore) and wdm has still few important bugs that leaves it to sid.

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Why not using a display manager

gdm and kdm seem to do autologin, but their dependency list is not acceptable for something that should just respawn an X server in an industrial system that must be kept simple.

xdm on the other hand has a small set of dependencies, but its developers seem to have decided that autologin is a ""glitz", and there is no need for it in such a bare-bones display manager".

Dict for "glitz" gives "tasteless showiness". What one has to bear...

wdm seems however even more disconcerting, as it "doesn't actually support autologin but you can set the default user and default password in /etc/X11/wdm/wdm-config. Now, [...] you only need to press Enter twice [...] to login".

Figure how this would look in the manual: "After powering up the unit, attach a USB keyboard and press enter twice to start the system".

And this is why we are not using a display manager.
Posted Sat 06 Jun 2009 00:57:39 CEST Tags: debian eng pdo rant sw tips

thanks

Happy New Year 2012

Hungry ghost · 12-31-2011, 08:20 AM

I haven't used this, but you can take a look at slim. From its description on aptitude:

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Desktop-independent graphical login manager for X11
SLiM aims to be light and simple, although completely configurable through themes and an option file. It is particularly suitable for machines that don't require remote
logins.

It seems to support autologin, btw.

Oh, and Happy New Year 2012

verdaz · 12-31-2011, 07:37 PM

SLiM not actively maintained, so lxdm is probably the most appealing alternative.

The author of xfce desktop environment states, in the xfce FAQ
ref: http://wiki.xfce.org/faq

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LXDM is the display manager of LXDE. But it is universal. I (Paiiou) think that it is an excellent manager for Xfce: no dependencies on GNOME or KDE, nice interface, very complete.

Hmm, lightDM is another possibility:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightDM

k3lt01 · 12-31-2011, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by verdaz

Hmm, lightDM is another possibility:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightDM

+1 I've gone to LightDM on my machines.

patrick295767 · 01-04-2012, 07:38 PM

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Originally Posted by k3lt01

+1 I've gone to LightDM on my machines.

my feeling is that xdm and wdm were lighter. I havent found a comparison of the required resources for each of them.