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dongiovanni

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-10-06

Posts: 110

Login/Display-Manager

Hi,

i am looking for a lightweight Login Manager, that hasn't much dependecies. I don't like kde and gdm very much and at xdm i miss the function to shut down my system (although there is the possibility to use some tcl/tk scripts to do it).

Are there any prjects? I use dwm and i love _very_ simple programs...

IsSuE

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Registered: 2006-04-29

Posts: 309

Re: Login/Display-Manager

try slim
http://slim.berlios.de/

baze

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Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 393

Re: Login/Display-Manager

you could try slim, but that created 200mb logfiles for me but i didn't know about logrotate. slim is very simple..

dongiovanni

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2006-10-06

Posts: 110

Re: Login/Display-Manager

I'll try it out..

test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

Posts: 834

Re: Login/Display-Manager

you can also use quingy http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … ns=0&SeB=s which i atleast liked better than slim, or you can use wdm whoich i haven't tried. or you can just use some code in .bashrc..

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whompus

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From: Durham. UK

Registered: 2005-08-09

Posts: 256

Re: Login/Display-Manager

I'm using xdm-archlinux 0.2-1 which has the option to shutdown/reboot but I cannot find the package in any repos. Still have a copy of the the tar.gz file and pkgbuild if you are interested.

dongiovanni

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-10-06

Posts: 110

Re: Login/Display-Manager

OH! I'm realy interested in! Thanks!

whompus

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From: Durham. UK

Registered: 2005-08-09

Posts: 256

Re: Login/Display-Manager

pm me your email address and will send it to you.

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Login/Display-Manager

I used to use that xdm mod too, before switching to slim. AFAIK whoever put it together never bothered to put it in the AUR. You could always upload it yourself, whompus, with a Contributor line for the original creator.

whompus

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From: Durham. UK

Registered: 2005-08-09

Posts: 256

Re: Login/Display-Manager

Tried to submit the package to AUR but keep getting need to create an account! I already have an account which I normally use to vote on packages, do I need another type of account?

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Login/Display-Manager

Your account looks fine to me - there's only two types, normal and trusted, and you're normal. :?

Obvious question, but did you login before trying to submit?

whompus

Member

From: Durham. UK

Registered: 2005-08-09

Posts: 256

Re: Login/Display-Manager

Had 2 opera windows open and the first one must have overidden the second.

Now getting an error
Package URL is missing a protocol (ie. http:// ,ftp://)

The PKGBUILD does not have a protocol as it is not required, the tarball just contains scripts, plain text docs and a xpm image. Any suggestions? I'm not very good with this aur stuff.

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Login/Display-Manager

The url= field is mandatory, and generally points to the app's home page - http://xorg.freedesktop.org, in this case.

If this is your first AUR submission, you might like to glance over the AUR and ABS pages in the wiki first.

whompus

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From: Durham. UK

Registered: 2005-08-09

Posts: 256

Re: Login/Display-Manager

Now in the AUR