Feature changed by: Peter Gumbrell (gumb) Feature #308472, revision 8 Title: switch from XDM to LXDM for XFCE and "X minimal installation" openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: andrea florio (anubisg1) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: xdm is a very lightweight login manager, but it's actually really ugly and not easy to use. i suggest to switch to LXDM as default login manager. it's lightweight (LXDE default one) and depends only on gtk pam and ConsoleKit. lxdm also allow to create a branding package to customize the apperence bugzilla enhacement request: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561146 othere related feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307729 Discussion: #1: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2009-12-26 02:13:36) Last time I checked, Xorg XDM also does not interface with ConsoleKit, leaving device nodes in /dev without appropraite permission for the user. #2: Pavol Rusnak (prusnak) (2009-12-27 02:56:37) (reply to #1) AFAIK our xdm contains patches for ConsoleKit/PolicyKit, but this is not related to this request. #3: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2009-12-30 20:41:23) (reply to #2) Ah nice. It was missing in 11.1 however :-) + #4: Peter Gumbrell (gumb) (2011-01-08 11:58:14) + I've given the openSUSE 11.3 XFCE spin a try on an old spare machine + and it creates a bad impression straight away when confronted with the + horrifically ugly login box. Surely one of the openSUSE artwork team + could still knock up something a bit nicer in time for 11.4? It made me + feel that not one moment had ever been spent on polish for this DE + unlike with KDE and GNOME. Not knowing how best to remedy this, I + searched in YaST for other display managers and found that KDM pulls in + vast amounts of heavy dependencies whilst GDM a bit less so, so I + installed the latter. GDM is buggy though since a new user I added post- + install has their login name muddled up with another user and the + cursor always shows as busy. I hadn't known about LXDM but it sounds + like a better solution. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308472