Andrew Barnes wrote: > Hi, > > Its been a while since I built X11 from source and I've found that xdm > no longer appears in the sources. Have the developers removed it?
It is not 'officially' part of the Xorg distribution, but development will likely continue. There are lots of X applications that are no longer 'official' that still provide the same functionality that they always have, it is just that the core developers have trimmed the fat on what is the release, catering more to what distributions actually ship. > There > may have been better alternatives, but xdm worked and had no external > dependancies. > You will find this a lot. xcalc was another one that has been requested recently. There are a couple unofficial apps in BLFS because they are needed to test our minimal X installation. That is the deciding factor for keeping them in BLFS, against the maintainers' suggestion for the distribution (for instance, bdf2pcf is deprecated, but still required to install the old bitmap fonts which *are* still a part of the X distribution). > I've been looking for other login manager's that have few dependancies, > and come across SLiM. Has anyone tried it? Are there any others? > > If I can find one, and can make it work, I'll post the instructions :) > > Thanks in advance > Andy Thanks. -- DJ Lucas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
