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I'm just wondering what other users use, or can recommend, for graphical login screens. I've tried using the XFree one and I think its a little ugly, especially now I've got xFce looking really nice.
Not just at the moment, but I'm setting up a system for a family member who will. They're used to windows, and I'm migrating them to linux for stability and ease of use.
They'll basically have a slack box with xFce, Rox, Firefox, Thunderbird, and XMMS on it. But booting into the CLI will mean more questions than I can answer, whereas if they're presented with a nice, neat graphical logon, then single buttons for apps (and to control volume - such as built into xFce) they won't be presented with anything that will cause ear-ache for me!
Plus, I'd prefer to log in using a graphical login screen once my system is fully setup.
Originally posted by TheOneAndOnlySM gdm is really sleek and the memory issue isn't bad: it uses 8.5 megs of memory for me
My requirement is having passwordless logins, and I never could get that to work with GDM, even when I added the user names to the passwordless login line. Therefore, I have to use KDM. I like GDM's ability to have the flexiserver though, that's a nice touch.
Originally posted by neocookie I can't really use GDM/KDM due to the large footprint, and XDM is very ugly.
Are there any others?
You can customize the image on the gdm login screen. I have several images. The site I got theme from was art.gnome.org which is down right now. I just found some by searching on Google for
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