JFYI LightDM as an alternative display manager on Slackware current

Hiya,

I was considering to install lightdm on slackware, unfortunately lightdm isn't available on slackbuild.org.

Ok, do it yourself, and I have created two build lightdm & lightdm-gtk-greeter.

If you like check it out, but this version isn't suitable for production environments.....not yet.

Congratz. I'm happy to see alternatives to SDDM show up. SDDM seems to work great IF you choose runelevel4 as default inittab and/or autologin. It's something of a PITA if one prefers booting to runlevel3. For one thing it will not allow auto-switching to F7 terminal from ruinlevel3, requiring manual operation. Sure, that easy to circumvent by setting "minimumVT=1" but the default seems to only serve some. Minor complaint but does demonstrate a lack of concern and support.

Ali Ahmadi has provided SlackBuilds for lightdm and its greeter since several years, now in his GitHub repository. I ship lightdm, lightm-gtk-greeter and lightm-gtk-greeter-settings packages in Slint, built using his SlackBuilds with some adaptation, so that lightdm be accessible with speech using Orca. I have also include a PAM package in Slint, only because it's needed by lightdm. Ali is also a SlackBuild contributor for some software related (not surprisingly) to Indonesian language.

A also ship gdm-2.20.11 in Slint, fully accessible with braille and speech. As old as be this version, it still builds and run on Slackware64-current, so I intend to continue shipping it in Slint 15.