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Re: Replacement/Reinstatement for x11/gdm needed



On 6/14/23 04:51, David Brownlee wrote:
On Sat, 10 Jun 2023 at 19:17, pin <voidpin%protonmail.com@localhost> wrote:

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On Saturday, June 10th, 2023 at 7:53 PM, Dan Cîrnaț <dan%alt.md@localhost> wrote:

Version 2 is, however, long abandoned upstream. As others have mentioned
in this thread, pkgsrc has alternatives that might be more suitable.

slim has been unmaintained since 2013.

There's however a recent fork that is maintained, https://sourceforge.net/projects/slim-fork/files/
Not what we currently have in pkgsrc, we have the original unmaintained slim.

I have no interest in display managers but, perhaps moving to the maintained fork as upstream source would be a possibility.

pkgsrc/x11/slim updated to 1.4.0 (on the fork)

Interestingly it can be set to take a set of sessions to select from -
by reading .session files from $PREFIX/share/sessions. I wonder if
this is something we should be exploring (where does/did gdm take its
list of sessions?)

David

I'm not seeing any mention of sddm in this thread.

Have you tried it?

I've found it to be the easiest way to support multiple desktop environments on FreeBSD, and the latest release is already in wip/sddm (though I haven't tried building it yet).



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