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On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists@×××××.at> wrote: |
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> Am 2012-02-18 23:15, schrieb Grant: |
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>> I switched to SLiM and I like it but I wish there were a way to |
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>> restart and/or shutdown from the login screen. I had to emerge xterm |
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>> to make it work BTW. |
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> Could someone point out what is bad about gdm? |
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> Does it matter that much? |
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> What advantages does it have to use lightdm/slim/something else? |
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> Does it matter on modern powerful machines? Less packages to merge? |
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More dependencies, more moving parts, more stuff to build, more stuff |
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to break. And that's just a principle-driven overview. I don't have |
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any systems not running slim right now, so I can't do a direct |
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comparison without installing and configuring gdm. |
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The only significant use I might require gdm for would be XDMCP |
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support...slim doesn't appear to support that. |
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:wq |
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