On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Benjamin Leggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:29:31 +0200 > Erik Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:14:08PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > The login manager slim, which is started in daemon mode, >> > get killed when X is left by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace >> > (zapping X) -- there is a fallback to the login of the >> > root console instead of getting a new login screen of slim. >> >> Is this actually a bug or intended behaviour? If it's a bug, is there >> a version that works properly? > > It's supposed to do this. GDM, and I think KDM, both respawn after being > killed, but IMHO this isn't a good thing. If you kill something, you > don't want it coming back to life by itself. If there's a problem > somewhere in your X server and the disply manager constantly dies and > tries to restart, that can get annoying. It's not in slim because it > shouldn't really be default behaviour. Might not be bad to provide an > conf file option for this behavior, though.
You can try Qingy as an alternative for using an xdm: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Fix_The_Login_Security_Hole
