xfdm

[Jean-Philippe Guillemin]

Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Ori Bernstein wrote:
>
>   
>> On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:49:14 +0200, polytan <polytan at gmail.com> said:
>>
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm using xfce for a quite long time (I agree, less than M. Fourdan 
>>> :) ) and
>>> I try to only use xfce components (understand gtk only and no gnome).
>>>
>>> So, I'm asking all people developping xfce software because an xfce 
>>> daemon
>>> manager is the last thing not currently existing.
>>>       
>> This has been discussed repeatedly.
>>
>> Creating a DM (Desktop Manager) is far from trivial when the security 
>> issues are
>> taken into account, and nobody seems to be interested in creating and
>> maintaining it.
>>
>> Unless you're willing to write a DM for Xfce, just use GDM or Slim or 
>> XDM or one
>> of the many other login managers.
>>     
>
> Easier than writing a Display Manager (not daemon manager nor desktop 
> manager)
> from scratch is to use GDM but only use the GTK+ version of the login 
> screen,
> and then port the GUI control interface to the config files over from 
> GNOME ?
>
> See e.g. 
> http://foo-projects.org/pipermail/xfce4-dev/2005-April/015412.html
>
> This makes for a nicer interface which is consistent with the rest of 
> Xfce
> (since it uses standard GTK+ like the rest of Xfce) - and avoids having 
> to
> rewrite all the lower-level layers with all the security implications 
> etc.
>
> For Fedora, the login screen would look something like:
> http://www.algonet.se/~afb/xfce/gdmlite-fedora-login.png
>
> I used a special stripped-down local RPM package called "GDM Lite", but 
> this
> could be formalized into a "real" Xfce-targetted variant of GDM 
> perhaps... ?
> (the -lite package just omits a couple of binaries to cut dependencies 
> down)
>
> # Customize: /etc/gdm/custom.conf [daemon]
> Greeter=/usr/libexec/gdmlogin
> # Customize: etc/gdm/custom.conf [greeter]
> Logo=/usr/share/icons/Fedora/96x96/places/start-here.png
>
> But it does need a real GUI for Xfce, so one doesn't have to edit 
> configs.
> Why not start with http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/screenshots.html 
> and
> port the backend over to use Xfce configurations instead of the GNOME 
> ones ?
>   

Or you simply install Zenwalk Linux : this is the way we configure GDM 
since ages ...

JP

> --anders
>
> PS. GDM-Lite was inspired by http://vljubovic.members.epn.ba/ubuntu.html
>
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