Anne Nicolas launched a discussion about display manager. >From my part, I try to eliminate good hundred of unwanted packages during a reduced installation (personal desk, without any group of packages, but with X server and with urpmi).
Further to Thierry Vignaud's indications and Michael Scherer's remarks, during the discussion on dm, I proceeded to diverse test installations. Which are the consequences on the other types of installation (KDE, Gnome) by the proposed modifications ? It taken several days, but the local mirror being of use to the installations remained unchanged. Why xguest? ----------- Can be to have at least an installed account? Maybe to be able to lend his computer? Is it necessary to keep xguest? ------------------------------- I would say that yes, but on the condition of not creating unwanted effects. Current consequences ---------------------- xguest requiresdm (display manager). xdm is installed by means of the file rpmsrate, item CAT_X. But xdm do not possess the property dm. Another manager must also be installed. With the office Gnome, it is gdm. For a reason which I did not find, in ALL OTHER cases, it is kdm, with all the dependences. How to remedy it? -------------------- I investigated several possibilities. - Favor a light dm, such as SLiM or lxdm (or other?), having the property dm For this to add a line "slim" or "lxdm" in the file prefer.vendor.list - Give up xguest For this delete xguest of the item CAT_X in rpmsrate - To give the property dm to the package xdm. xdm is systematically installed. Consequences? -------------- The multiple tests which I made show that the three solutions are possible. To give the property dm to the package xdm would have my preference (xdm being systematically installed).
