How about sprucing up XDM ?
After reading all the very instructive comments on the tread, I ended up
loading xdm, and yum installing all the different pieces from the
groupinstall piecemeal and checking  out to make sure no gnome stuff was
slipping through.

I think I got it all, and currently I am using XDM to log in.

JP

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Kevin Kofler <[email protected]> wrote:

> Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > gdm is a big one. It now basically requires a gnome desktop to work.
> > Perhaps we should look at pulling in kdm for Xfce. ;)
>
> Well, then you'll need at least kdelibs, probably kdebase-runtime and
> oxygen-icon-theme too (and all that stuff is pretty large). :-( KDM doesn't
> spawn an almost complete KDE desktop like GDM does with GNOME, but it does
> need the KDE libraries. We'd also have to split it out of kdebase-workspace
> for you - I don't think you want all of kdebase-workspace on the XFCE
> spin. ;-)
>
> I guess porting my KDM ConsoleKit patch (which now got accepted into KDE
> upstream, but the patch can be extracted from KDE SVN) to one of the
> lightweight display managers and then using that as the default would be
> the best approach for you in the long run.
>
>        Kevin Kofler
>
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