Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-09 Thread Guus Snijders
Op 9 mei 2012 15:59 schreef Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de het volgende: Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de on Tue, 2012/05/08 10:35: Any thoughts on that? Ok, some notes from myself... There were two reasons why I did not use lxdm: [...] Just being curious, but wasn't it lxdm that caused a bit

[arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Christian Hesse
Hello everybody, slim has some known security weaknesses (for example it has no separate greeter process thus the graphical interface is running with super user privileges) and a lot of open bugs. Additionally it does not support latest packages (consolekit and friends) out of the box. Though

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread John Hutchison
Am 08.05.2012 03:35, schrieb Christian Hesse: I propose to drop slim from [extra] and replace it with lightdm and lightdm-gtk-greeter. Why not just provide both?

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Allan McRae
On 08/05/12 18:35, Christian Hesse wrote: Hello everybody, slim has some known security weaknesses (for example it has no separate greeter process thus the graphical interface is running with super user privileges) and a lot of open bugs. Additionally it does not support latest packages

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Gour
On Tue, 8 May 2012 10:35:50 +0200 Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de wrote: This is a very active project with responsive upstream developer. Security is a key feature and it integrates with latest desktop techniques really well. The AUR package for lightdm has 259 votes at the time of writing.

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana
Maintaining slim doen't seem a big effort; I'd stay with lightdm *and* slim in [extra]. 2012/5/8 Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de John Hutchison heim...@athetius.com on Tue, 2012/05/08 03:53: Am 08.05.2012 03:35, schrieb Christian Hesse: I propose to drop slim from [extra] and replace it with

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Christian Hesse
Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org on Tue, 2012/05/08 19:14: On 08/05/12 18:35, Christian Hesse wrote: Hello everybody, slim has some known security weaknesses (for example it has no separate greeter process thus the graphical interface is running with super user privileges) and a lot of

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2012-05-08 11:37:06 +0200] Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana: Maintaining slim doen't seem a big effort; Great. Then you can do just that in the AUR. -- Gaetan

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Stephen E. Baker
On 08/05/2012 5:14 AM, Allan McRae wrote: On 08/05/12 18:35, Christian Hesse wrote: Hello everybody, slim has some known security weaknesses (for example it has no separate greeter process thus the graphical interface is running with super user privileges) and a lot of open bugs. Additionally

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Nicholas MIller
On May 8, 2012 7:27 AM, Stephen E. Baker baker.stephe...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/05/2012 5:14 AM, Allan McRae wrote: On 08/05/12 18:35, Christian Hesse wrote: Hello everybody, slim has some known security weaknesses (for example it has no separate greeter process thus the graphical

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Seblu
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de wrote: Any thoughts on that? I was interested by your suggestion as slim user since 2 years. Consolekit integration (and my ugly workaround) is my only issue with it. So i took the time to test this light login manager, and my

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana
2012/5/8 Gaetan Bisson bis...@archlinux.org [2012-05-08 11:37:06 +0200] Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana: Maintaining slim doen't seem a big effort; Great. Then you can do just that in the AUR. I'd like to have a pre-compiled package, as I'm very lazy :D It's a nice software, maybe moving it

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Am 08.05.2012 17:53, schrieb Seblu: On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de wrote: Any thoughts on that? I was interested by your suggestion as slim user since 2 years. Consolekit integration (and my ugly workaround) is my only issue with it. So i took the time to

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 05/08/2012 09:53 AM, Seblu wrote: On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de wrote: Any thoughts on that? I was interested by your suggestion as slim user since 2 years. Consolekit integration (and my ugly workaround) is my only issue with it. So i took the time to

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

2012-05-08 Thread Don deJuan
On 05/08/2012 06:28 AM, Nicholas MIller wrote: On May 8, 2012 7:27 AM, Stephen E. Bakerbaker.stephe...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/05/2012 5:14 AM, Allan McRae wrote: On 08/05/12 18:35, Christian Hesse wrote: Hello everybody, slim has some known security weaknesses (for example it has no