On 05/08/2016 05:21 PM, Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@???> wrote:
> FWIW, +1 for lightdm. I switched in order to get keyboard and mouse
> navigation to the greeter options. For integration with xfce, I did
> need to perform a few extra steps. From memory, the 'switch user'
> feature needed to be altered to use 'dm-tool' instead of
> 'gdmflexiserver', I ended up totally removing xfce4-power-manager and
> its panel applet in favor acpid-only and the xfce battery applet, and
> probably other stuff that I just don't remember.
>
> The newer versions of Lightdm (I think its available in the testing
> repo) allows for a webkit-based greeter for more eye-candy if that's
> of interest to you, and also offers a gui configuration tool that's
> pretty neat.
>
> There's a 'light-locker' screen locking program that installs along
> with lightdm, which includes a protection feature against X-M-Fn
> switching. A complaint I have against it is that it doesn't seem to
> offer anything other than a blank screen (no screensaver visual
> feedback or eye-candy), and it doesn't switch to a greeter screen
> until a delay after one begins typing, so one can easily misinterpret
> the screen lock as some form of BSOD (blank screen of death).
>
> On 2016-05-08 10:14, fsmithred wrote:
>> >On 05/08/2016 08:24 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > >So I google etc/slim.conf to fid out what it is, and on the first
>>> > >link I find Warning: The SliM project has been abandoned (the
>>> > >project homepage is down, leaving a github mirror),
>>> > >
>>> > >That's on the archwiki
>>> > >
>>> > >https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SLiM
>>> > >
>>> > >They also warn that it's incompatible with systemd.
>>> > >
>>> > >I hope that's an arch-specific abandonment.
>>> > >The gentoo page doesn't have this warning.
>>> > >
>>> > >-- hendrik
>>> > >
>>> > >
>> >
>> >
>> >The github mirror has a readme that says: "Note: This repository was
>> >used as backup source and is no longer maintained."
>> >
>> >
>> >I'm using lightdm here. Didn't have to do anything special to get it
>> >to work without systemd. Don't even have libsystemd0 installed on
>> >this box.
>> >
>> >-fsr

My vote is also for lightdm, it allows you to switch the
desktop-environment, the language and the keyboard configuration.

Cheers,

Aitor.

P.D.- I'm trying with the beta of gnuinos, but debmirror doesn't work :(