On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 2012-02-18 23:15, schrieb Grant: > >> I switched to SLiM and I like it but I wish there were a way to >> restart and/or shutdown from the login screen. I had to emerge xterm >> to make it work BTW. > > Could someone point out what is bad about gdm? > Does it matter that much? > > What advantages does it have to use lightdm/slim/something else? > > Does it matter on modern powerful machines? Less packages to merge?
More dependencies, more moving parts, more stuff to build, more stuff to break. And that's just a principle-driven overview. I don't have any systems not running slim right now, so I can't do a direct comparison without installing and configuring gdm. The only significant use I might require gdm for would be XDMCP support...slim doesn't appear to support that. -- :wq
