Lightweight display manager for xfce?

[John Willis]

Hi,

> > > The only thing left which bothers me is GDM, it takes as long as
> > > xfce to start if not longer and seems to pull a lot of dependencies.
> > > Is there a lightweight display manager where xfce's shutdown/reboot
> > > buttons work?
> >
> > Have you tried LXDM?
> 
> Or Slim:
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/slim

Another vote for SLiM (http://slim.berlios.de/).

The recent 1.3.2 release (late last year) patched up some of the bigger
holes and integrated the PAM support (ok, you may want a few patches on top,
use your judgement ;)).

I use SLiM with Xfce in the shipping firmware on the OpenPandora and have
found it to be reasonable, fairly robust and quick to get up and running.

LightDM seems the other popular choice
(http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LightDM) and it is on my list to
try as soon as I find some time.

Regards,

John