WDM for Slackware

gnashley · 10-24-2006, 01:24 PM

I've worked up a package for Slackware-11 for the WDM Display and Login manager which is easy to use with safe defaults.
Please see here for package:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/...-i486-4afx.tgz

Since WDM uses several config files, I've written a configuration utility which adds a couple of features and makes configuring the most common options easier.

GUI login is a critical issue, so I've rebuilt and rebooted hundreds of times to get this going well with a safe default. I'd really appreciate feedback, bug reports or suggestions.

simcox1 · 10-24-2006, 03:23 PM

It works fine Gnashley. I haven't generally used display managers because a)I don't like to install kde, and b)xdm is useless. This gives me the option to reboot and shutdown, without being kdm. What I did was to comment out the xdm and kdm entries in rc.4 and add one for wdm. I suppose I could have done chmod -x for kdm and xdm, but that's what i did. Is there any possibility of autologin?

simcox1 · 10-24-2006, 03:38 PM

There are two problems, which I also get with other display managers. Emacs no longer works when root, and my mouse buttons don't work properly. This also happens when I've used kdm in the past, so it's not wdm related. It seems as though my .Xmodmap isn't being read. Any idea what the problem might be?

titopoquito · 10-24-2006, 04:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by simcox1

There are two problems, which I also get with other display managers. Emacs no longer works when root, and my mouse buttons don't work properly. This also happens when I've used kdm in the past, so it's not wdm related. It seems as though my .Xmodmap isn't being read. Any idea what the problem might be?

Put your .Xmodmap settings (and additional things) in $HOME/.xprofile

gnashley · 10-24-2006, 10:03 PM

As far as I know autologin is not possible. But you can set up a default user and password so that just clicking ENTER logs in. See /etc/X11/wdm/wdm-comfig for details.

gnashley · 11-01-2006, 02:15 AM

I've worked on this a lot more so your .Xmodmap and .xprofile should be properly read now. Plus I've added more options including animations. The link in the original post points to the new version.