A tiny display manager in gtk ?

[Auke Kok]

Maxime GEORGE-BOURREAU wrote:

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>>
>> xdm would be a good place since it's taken security into 
>> consideration and has been debugged for years, however, you would 
>> have to take up the entire task of writing the gtk2 code around it 
>> and make sure it's safe too.
>>
> My idea is a sort of 'point and click' display manager. I don't need 
> the network ability of xdm.
>
>> Unfortunately xdm doesn't offer icons at all, so if you really want 
>> that you'd need to start from scratch. Personally I just use gdm ... 
>> it's lightweighted enough even to start xfce ;^).
>>
> With gdm you need bonobo and gconf. It's a bit bloated IMHO. 


I was referring to the relatively small memory footprint (2-3mb) for 
such a feature-rich dm... of course any application that requires bonobo 
is bloat, but it's not exactly the same as "running nautilus". gdm 
starts up rather quickly IMO, even on older boxes

sofar