Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] LXDM or Lightdm ?

2011-06-09 Thread Chris
Aloha oukou, I agree with what Julian said about LightDM, on all mentioned (dis)advantages. But the advantages should outweigh the disadvantages, as Ubuntu and Xubuntu even have way more devs hanging around then Lubuntu. Every error or bug we encounter we can put on launchpad and hopefully will

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] LXDM or Lightdm ?

2011-06-09 Thread Julien Lavergne
Le Wednesday 08 June 2011 à 23:26 +0100, Yorvyk a écrit : I've been running Ubuntu Oneiric with lightdm for a while and it appears to behave it's self OK. Having had a bit of a read about it I don't see an advantage in either, from a user's point of view, and I'm a bit lost with the

[Lubuntu-desktop] LXDM or Lightdm ?

2011-06-08 Thread Julien Lavergne
Hi, I'm a bit late for that, but it still time to discuss such topic. LightDM [1] will be the next display manager for Ubuntu, and probably Xubuntu (maybe Kubuntu also !). It will replace GDM which have a tight dependency on GNOME. LightDM has the advantage to split the greeter (the UI part)