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RedArcher

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From: South Africa

Registered: 2009-09-03

Posts: 115

[NEWS] LXDM – New Display Manager

LXDE finally has its own display manager, lxdm, and doesn't need to rely on GDM or KDM from now on.

To see is to believe.

lxdm screenshot

Recently, a new developer dgod from China joined us and contributed a new project, lxdm, a lightweight display manager aimed to replace gdm. Later, I modified his code, and re-implement the UI with GTK+. So, this is how it look like. It's still in very early stage, and things are not expected to work correctly. For now, it only work smoothly with Fedora. On Ubuntu or others, there might be some issues. However we'll work on fixing those problems and finish this new display manager.

The code is in LXDE svn repo. For someone who wants to try it, use at you own risk and have fun!

Links

* LXDE Wiki: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXDM

Source: http://blog.lxde.org/?p=531
Source: http://blog.lxde.org/?p=531
Source: http://blog.lxde.org/?p=531
Source: http://blog.lxde.org/?p=531

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,358

Re: [NEWS] LXDM – New Display Manager

Sorry, but concerning 'not relying on GDM or KDM', what about SLIM? Or simply starting up the session automatically?

Good to see LXDE getting more 'well-rounded', though.

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flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: [NEWS] LXDM – New Display Manager

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30050 for archers

scarecrow

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From: Greece

Registered: 2004-11-18

Posts: 715

Re: [NEWS] LXDM – New Display Manager

Cannot build the current SVN, missing files - see the AUR page.

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zodmaner

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Registered: 2007-07-11

Posts: 653

Re: [NEWS] LXDM – New Display Manager

Looks nice, will try this out and see how it goes.

knedlyk

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From: L'viv, Ukraine

Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 163

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Re: [NEWS] LXDM – New Display Manager

See my comments on the AUR page (modifying the Xsession file).