On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 12:40 -0500, Bill Puschmann wrote: > I'll second Qingy (corrected spelling... how'd it get into the fsf > directory misspelled?) http://qingy.sourceforge.net/ > > 'startx' is fine, unless you're trying to be secure. Anyone can walk > up to your machine, give it a ctrl-alt-backspace and drop into your > shell (regardless of a screenlock). Fine for home use... sucks for > the office. > > Since qingy uses the framebuffer, you don't have the overhead of > launching X. It comes preconfigured to either drop you straight to > console, user's xsession or whatever their last session was. Plus, > it's very easy to configure themes (probably not all that interesting > for most DWM folks... but great for the rest of the family)
Thanks to all who responded! Slim looks nice, but I think Qingy looks a bit better for my needs. Security is a concern for me at home since my inexperienced users can, and sometimes do, press random keys. I might even have time to try it in the next couple of days... Thanks again! -RPM
