At Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:41:44 +0100 Espen Wiborg wrote: > Julien Danjou <[email protected]> writes: > > At 1234345948 time_t, Frank Blendinger wrote: > >> Maybe I should get rid of gdm completely, it seems a bit overkill. > >> Any suggestions for a more lightweight alternative? What is an awesome > >> display manager? Or do you guys just use startx? > > Well the nice alternative was slim but it's a bit buggy IMHO, and have > > no clue about Xinerama AFAIK. > > I use slim, but as Julien says it is Xinerama-ignorant. I guess xdm is > an alternative, but IIRC it is butt-ugly... > > I keep meaning to hack Xinerama support into slim, but my supply of > round tuits has dried up in the past months... :( >
At the moment, I use qingy. It is a replacement for getty which supports
framebuffer modes (i.e. pretty pictures, a mouse cursor,
{restart|shutdown|hibernate} buttons, clock, uptime, whatever). With qingy you
can either log into a standard Linux console just like you would with getty,
but it also supports starting an X server with your .xsession file executed.
If you don't want to use a framebuffer, you can also run it without any fb
support so it looks like regular getty but still allows starting an X session.
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Gregor Best
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