Lightweight display manager

[Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues]

Entrance is nice, it does the job fairly well, but it seems to be a
bit buggy. Those many fire/light animations don't help either...

Anyway, none of the apps currently using EFL are meant for production
use, they are just technology showcases. Really cool ones, but just
showcases :)

In a related note, The EFL are a really impressive job. I couldn't
believe that my old laptop (p 266 MMX, 64 Mb RAM) was able to do so
many fancy effects without crawling. However, being a technology
preview, E17 is really annoying for everyday use. I mean really.

2005/4/18, Nikolas Arend <Nikolas.Arend at gmx.net>:
> 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.
> 
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