Bug 561146

Summary: switch from XDM to LXDM for XFCE and "X minimal installation"
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3 Reporter: andrea florio <andrea>
Component: UsabilityAssignee: andrea florio <andrea>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None CC: forgotten_cAXlJ_FoSf
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Description andrea florio 2009-12-05 18:24:42 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; it; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091103 SUSE/3.5.5-3.1 Firefox/3.5.5

xdm is a very lightweight login manager, but it's actually really ugly and not easy to use. i suggest to switch to LXDM as default login manager. it's lightweight (LXDE default one) and depends only on gtk pam and ConsoleKit

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Stefan Dirsch 2009-12-05 18:32:35 UTC 
What's still missing for that? Support for lxdm has been added to /etc/init.d/xdm, so it should be sufficient for the Minimal+X and Xfce installation to set DISPLAYMANAGER to "lxdm" in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager, right? I don't feel responsible for doing that. :-)
Comment 2 andrea florio 2009-12-05 18:59:23 UTC 
of course we should add lxdm to OSS first (possibly all lxde enviroment the biggest package is 1MB)
after that yes.. if no security patches are required change /etc&sysconfig/displaymanager should be enougth.
i wasn's sure if put this as X.org or usability...
Comment 3 Stefan Dirsch 2009-12-05 19:03:53 UTC 
Ok. Reassigning to Usability.
Comment 4 Stephan Kulow 2009-12-08 13:38:24 UTC 
how is usability supposed to set the default dm to something that does not exist?
Comment 5 andrea florio 2010-08-13 14:06:04 UTC 
this has been done for lxde in openSUSE 11.3

evaluating to do so for xfce in openSUSE 11.4
Comment 6 Forgotten User cAXlJ_FoSf 2011-01-11 17:44:00 UTC 
The XFCE pattern has now been switched to GDM which provides a superset of the functionality of LXDM.