• From: Bleeding Kansas
  • Registered: 2009-11-09
  • Posts: 178

Topic: LXDM over GDM?

I've been playing around a lot with using more of LXDE's apps with my openbox setup and I've been really impressed and happy with how things are going. Of course the old standards are there lxappearance, pcmanfm, etc, but recently I discovered the LXDM login manager. I'm shure it's old news to some, but I've never been a fan of LXDE as a sum, but I like it's parts. So, I wasn't real privy to what was going on there until recently.

After ditching KDE to go back to light weight things, I realized that KDM had to go as well. I tried GDM, but I'm not a huge fan of the changes that Gnome made, it seems like it's not fully ready yet. Just kind of meh. Then I tried Slim, which is cool and I liked it a lot, but the having to type "halt" or "reboot" got kind of old and it wasn't always stable. In comes LXDM. To my untrained eye, it looks and feels like a GDM/ Slim hybrid. Light, but slick at the same time.

One thing I noticed though, is to not leave the "session" as default. It started openbox and all, but it ignored my autostart.sh. When I logged out and chose "openbox" for the session it logged in fine and started all of my stuff.

So, check it out. It's theme-able now and I think it might be a good choice for those wanting to keep things relatively gnome free. Maybe even good for future #!?

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  • From: Scotland
  • Registered: 2009-12-29
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Re: LXDM over GDM?

LXDM is missing from the debian repositories (even not in sid or experimental)

  • From: Bleeding Kansas
  • Registered: 2009-11-09
  • Posts: 178

Re: LXDM over GDM?

Oops sorry, ding dong moment hmm
Sourceforge page here to compile.

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  • Digit
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Re: LXDM over GDM?

yeah, similar story and preferences as you zen:core.  this is the first i think i've heard of lxdm too.  thnx. smile

my old crunchbang based system has been upgraded to a 10.04 base, and the gdm....  what the hell did they do...  it's so sluggish n painful now.    another piece of kit bloated into being fit for ditching.

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Re: LXDM over GDM?

well, i tried it... and, it was pleasant enough... but, and it's a deal breaking "but", it's screwed up my openbox-session and "depends" on basically all of the rest of lxdm.  hmm  no.

so i went off to try out some others.   i skipped slim for the moment, since i know it already, and use it in my other operating system.

wdm has won me over.   it has automatically reccognised loads more of the window managers i have installed, many more than any of the other login managers i tried did.

... i've removed lxdm and the lxde gubbins, but my openbox-session is still in tatters.  sad  gur.

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