Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Laurent Lejeune <olol85@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] slim login manager issues
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:11:35
Message-Id: 4A2E2738.50304@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] slim login manager issues by "Sebastian Günther"
1 Sebastian Günther wrote:
2 > * Laurent Lejeune (olol85@×××××.com) [08.06.09 19:19]:
3 >
4 >> Hi all,
5 >>
6 >> I'm having some issues with the slim login manager, which suits my very
7 >> basic needs very well, except from those two things:
8 >>
9 >> * When starting, the keyboard doesn't respond quite well. The
10 >> characters don't show on screen imediately, and sometimes, it gets
11 >> even worse: it freezes for maybe 1-2 seconds, then the first key i
12 >> hit gets "stuck", which basically means it repeats that caracter a
13 >> fine dozen of times.
14 >>
15 >
16 > I have that problem, too. But upstream has an even bigger problem:
17 > Maintainer needed.
18 >
19 >
20 >> * when i have to restart x, slim doesn't restarts itself up, i'm
21 >> thrown back to basic console login prompt.
22 >>
23 >>
24 >
25 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261359
26 >
27 >
28 >> Any help greatly appreciated.
29 >>
30 >> cya.
31 >>
32 >>
33 >
34 > I think until there is a new maintainer, nothing of this will get fixed
35 > anytime soon. :-(
36 >
37 > Sebastian
38 >
39 >
40 I noticed that by changing the theme, the keyboard freeze issue
41 disappeared. As for the x restart sending me back to console login
42 prompt, i still have to investigate that.