Display Managers
by business_kid from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6H809)
Somebody enlighten me about Display Managers pls. I have Slackware-15.0 with XFCE. I don't have any kde packages installed.
/etc/rc.d/rc.4 makes 2 attempts to start gdm before anything else, although AFAIK, it doesn't exist on the dvd as it's a part of gnome. Then it tries for sddm, which appears last in a 32bit version for 14.2. It doesn't exist either, of course.
Lastly, it has comments to the effect that if we've no decent DMs, we'll have to suck it up and use xdm. Unusually, Slackware only supplies xdm, so X starts.
So:
/etc/rc.d/rc.4 makes 2 attempts to start gdm before anything else, although AFAIK, it doesn't exist on the dvd as it's a part of gnome. Then it tries for sddm, which appears last in a 32bit version for 14.2. It doesn't exist either, of course.
Lastly, it has comments to the effect that if we've no decent DMs, we'll have to suck it up and use xdm. Unusually, Slackware only supplies xdm, so X starts.
So:
- What's so bad about xdm?
- Is lightdm (Which slarm64 uses on my RazPi 4) any better?
- Is it a good idea to run kdm (which slackware presumably supplies) for xfce and how much else of kde does kdm need?