splashscreens and display managers
I'm trying to make my Slackware 11 laptop look spiffy. What is the correct way to intall and setup bootsplash? Also, where can I find bootsplash and Lilo splash screens?
On another note, i'm also looking for a light weight display manager. I am not too interested in GDM, KDM, or XDM. OK, thanks! I'll go try googling some more. |
for boot splash u need to recompile the kernel, u can make the lilo graphical (go to shilo,s guide fisrt thread of slackware forum,, sticky) if u want a nice kernel please dont use bootsplash and i think the tux is more good lookin.
Quote:
|
Quote:
|
If you want something light.
login manager: XDM window manager: XFCE and don't use a bootsplash :-) It will work fine on an old PIII with 256Mo RAM |
Display managers are used to login and select the windows manager, I think. I guess I wont use the bootsplash, but im still looking for some alternative display managers to the ones I have listed above. I remember I found a really nice and simpe one with the FreeBSD ports, but I don't remember the name.
|
Quote:
A good place to start would be bootsplash.org. They have a lot of stuff there. |
Im trying to decide whether or not I should use this patch on bootsplash's website. Im running the 2.6.18 kernel. Any reason why it would be unsafe?
|
hosler,
Regarding the display manager, I found wdm in FreeBSD ports: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?p.../wdm/pkg-descr It's based on XDM. Maybe that's what you were looking for. |
if you search a session manager, slim is maybe what you want. http://slim.berlios.de/
|
Quote:
|
Here's my build of wdm, which I really like.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/....28-i486-1.tgz You'll find the sources and some extras stuff here: http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/.../AFX-wdm-1.28/ |
How can I get WDM to login to xfce? xfce4 requires a set up scripts to load. Can I just configure WDM to just use the xinitrc file?
|
See here for a greatly improved version which should detect your XFCE and others.
Uninstall existing version first. http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/...-i486-2afx.tgz |
You can give Fluxbox a whirl, if you can't get any of the lightweight windowmanagers to go...it comes with the basic Slackware install and here are some screenshots
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...icial%26sa%3DN |
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 02:16 AM. |