Lightweight display manager

[Nikolas Arend]

Biju Chacko wrote:

> Maxime GEORGE-BOURREAU wrote:
>
>> Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues a écrit :
>>
>>> Hi guys
>>>
>>> I'm new to the list, and I was thinking about this for a long time. I
>>> apoplogize in advance if this is not the right place where to post
>>> this.
>>>
>>> I was wondering if it's not possible to write a small and fast display
>>> manager for Xfce, with contemplates all the essential funcionality
>>> that a DM should have (login, session, shut down, etc.). I'm not sure
>>> if GDM does well in this respect, tough I use it on my toshiba portege
>>> 3010CT (pI 266 MMX, 64 Mb RAM). Maybe it can be done better.
>>>
>>> Of course, I don't know if there's an actual developers interest in
>>> writing such a thing (unfortunately I don't have the skills to do that
>>> right now).
>>>
>>> If this was previously discussed (I didn't find anything on the
>>> archives), point this to me (nicely) and simply ignore this message.
>>>
>>> Thank you for the attention
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>> I would like to write such a xfdm, but I don't know how to start :
>>
>> - fork xdm, fork gdm, or start from scratch ?
>>
>> - using only gtk librairies ?
>>
>> - network transparency needed ?
>
>
> I'd suggest you start by looking at what the others are doing. Why 
> don't you look at gdm, kdm, xdm and wdm. That will probably give you a 
> better idea of what niche needs to be filled.
>

There's also entrance, the enlightenment display manager. You might want 
to look at that one, too.

Regards,    Nick.