Thanks Stephen for your response :) I think I will give slim a spin this weekend on my desktop. Ultimately a lighter DM will be appreciated on my embedded boards.
Adam On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Stephen Arnold <[email protected]>wrote: > It's a bit more subtle than just "obvious advantage" since the deps are > different, config options are different, etc. Slim is probably "lighter" > than lxdm, in both features and dependency bloat. The former pretty > depends only on X11 libs and png (with optional pam and dbus/consolekit > integration). OTOH, lxdm has about the same pam/consolekit features, but > depends on gtk[2|3]. So, a bit fancier and a little more bloat. Which one > do you think is easier to theme? ;) > > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Adam Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Are there any obvious advantages over one another between LXDM and Slim? > > I love how LXDM doesn't require complicated authentication framework like > > GDM. > > > > Adam > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Stephen Arnold > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > Is there any interest in reviving slim? I'm using it on gentoo-arm on > > > several devices; works just like x86. Since I haven't tried it or > > > otherwise looked at it in oe yet, I have no idea why it's in a > > non-working > > > state. That said, it was on my todo list until I noticed lxdm, so I'll > > > probably check it out at some point; never a bad idea to have another > > > lightweight alternative... > > > > > > Steve > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Adam Lee <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > Andreas, LXDM from meta-oe works well with minimal configuration on > my > > > part > > > > :) > > > > I didn't have to add another layer to satisfy dependencies. Thanks :) > > > > > > > > Adam > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Andreas Müller < > > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Adam Lee <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > Thank you Koen and Andreas. That has been really helped in > clearing > > > up > > > > my > > > > > > confusion and setting the path forward. > > > > > > > > > > > > I think I will try LXDM in meta-misc in meta-oe. Is there any > > special > > > > > > configuration that I should be aware of (other then setting it as > > the > > > > > > graphical init manager)? > > > > > > > > > > meta-misc is my personal playground - it might have dependencies to > > > > > other layers and some things might not work as expected... > > > > > > > > > > Andreas > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Openembedded-devel mailing list > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Openembedded-devel mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Openembedded-devel mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Openembedded-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel > _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
