Lightweight display manager for xfce?

[Auke Kok]

On 05/26/2011 04:03 AM, Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First of all a big thank you. I am a long term KDE user (somehwere
> since 1998/99) and have switched to XFCE now because their 4.6 release
> was giving me a hard time.
> Ats amazing how well everything works, its even possible to only
> display the windows of the currently active dektop.
> Please don't try to change the world with xfce-5.0 ;)
>
> 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?
>
> I tried LightDM but it seems to have some known problems on my machine,
> KDM would pull in about 150mb of dependencies, which is too much for my taste.
> Xdm looks quite ok but doesn't support shutdown/reboot directly out of xfce.

if you always login to the same user, try uxlaunch - a `login-less` 
login manager. uxlaunch supports consolekit/pam and that's what is 
needed to get your xfce logout/shutdown buttons to work on most distro's.

http://meego.gitorious.org/meego-os-base/uxlaunch

Auke