XFCE doesn't have a usable graphical login!

Tom Wesley tawesley at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 27 19:05:54 CET 2003


On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 17:32, Otto Wyss wrote:
> >From what I've gathered so far it isn't possible to use XFCE with a
> graphical login. 
> 
> 1. XDM doesn't allow to shutdown (BTW it looks rather unsupported).
> 2. login.app isn't able to start my otherwise fully running X (with startx)
> 3. GDM requires a rather large part of gnome.
> 4. KDM ditto
> 5. WDM haven't checked but I don't expect any better
> 
> As a fact if anyone wants to build a fully graphical solution XFCE can't
> be used. The unplesant choice are either to use the console for
> startx/shutdown or to throw out XFCE and install gnome.
> 
> Since I pressed to get a solution within a week I need a hack which
> shutdowns the system instead of closing X. If nobody can provide such a
> hack I have to switch to gome, sorry.
> 
> O. Wyss

I haven't looked for some time, but you may be curious of elogin and
entrance from http://www.enlightenment.org/

-- 
Tom Wesley
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