Slim to XDM

sHyLoCk · 2010-01-07 10:46:13

Hi,
I've tried this using slim from extra, slim-plus and slim-cursor from AUR, but these features have never worked for me. So I'm guessing I'm doing something wrong?
1. Welcome message doesn't appear. It just says "Login" and a text field for entering username and password. I have this in slim.conf:

welcome_msg         Welcome to %host

2. Halt, reboot doesn't work from slim.

halt_cmd            /sbin/shutdown -h now
reboot_cmd          /sbin/shutdown -r now

How do I do these?

Regards

Last edited by sHyLoCk (2010-01-07 12:46:15)

fastfret79 · 2010-01-07 11:04:45

I'm not sure about the welcome message, but for for the others are you entering 'halt' or 'reboot' in the username and then entering you root password?

I could never get the 'console' command working with slim, but switching to another tty was easier and possibly more useful.

Because I was having a few probs and after seeing this thread http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=69299 I switched to xdm

sHyLoCk · 2010-01-07 11:10:15

fastfret79

Thanks for that link, I guess it's time to switch to xdm for me as well. I was going to take a look at CDM by ghost but I'll see if this looks better.

Gen2ly · 2010-01-07 12:30:08

Found this on the wiki the other day in case you want to go the XDM route:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bac … per_on_XDM

Last edited by Gen2ly (2010-01-07 12:52:00)

sHyLoCk · 2010-01-07 12:37:04

Thanks Gen2ly
Right now I'm trying to add a session-chooser. I have xinitrc, I just want to find out how xdm calls it, maybe add a buttonand switch case? No idea what I'm doing.

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#1 2010-01-07 10:46:13

Slim to XDM

#2 2010-01-07 11:04:45

Re: Slim to XDM

#3 2010-01-07 11:10:15

Re: Slim to XDM

#4 2010-01-07 12:30:08

Re: Slim to XDM

#5 2010-01-07 12:37:04

Re: Slim to XDM

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