On 13/06/15 08:38, Daniel Reurich wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently looking at patching the desktop tasks in taskselect to
> use slim instead of lightdm (atleast until lightdm has been cleaned up
> to not depend on systemd).
>
> Also I'm planning to replace gnome-network-manager in those tasks with
> wicd.
>
> These changes bring us closer to our goal of not needing to install
> any systemd dependencies. (There still are packages like cups and
> lxsession that need to have the tie-ins to systemd excised.
>
> Also, these changes only effect from scratch installation of Devuan,
> where tasksel is used. Installing the removed packages manually will
> work just fine.
>

> Regards,
>     Daniel.

Hello Daniel,

That is possibly the best option that we could have. Thanks for the idea.

I have never used slim before and I have been using lightdm for years.
But after looking at slim source code, it is cleaner than lightdm as
there is only 1 file that is related to systemd, i.e. slim.service. So I
decided to re-compile slim, of course after removing everything related
to systemd including adding the following patch.

anto@d945gclf:~/packages/development/slim/mine/slim-1.3.6/debian/patches$ cat 
do-not-install-unused-file.patch
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -251,9 +251,5 @@ if(BUILD_SLIMLOCK)
  endif(BUILD_SLIMLOCK)
  # configure
  install(FILES slim.conf DESTINATION ${SYSCONFDIR})
-# systemd service file
-if (${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME} MATCHES "Linux")
-    install(FILES slim.service DESTINATION ${LIBDIR}/systemd/system)
-endif (${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME} MATCHES "Linux")
  # themes directory
  subdirs(themes)
anto@d945gclf:~/packages/development/slim/mine/slim-1.3.6/debian/patches$

I installed it on my test PC, purged lightdm and it looks to be running
fine. I need to play around a bit with its setting before I install it
on my main PC.

About wicd, I have been looking for alternative of that because I
occasionally experience WiFi disconnection. It looks that it tries to
move to another access point even the signal strength and quality is not
good. I have 3 access points (two at 2.4 GHz and one at 5 GHz) in my
apartment with the same SSID to minimise the severe interference.

Do you or anybody else have any suggestion to solve this occasional drop
of WiFi connection on wicd?

Cheers,

Anto