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#1 2025-11-06 04:36:30
[SOLVED] Lightdm replaced by Slim in Excalibur ?
Hi all I noticed when installing the release Live Desktop ISO that Slim has returned as the default login manager. I have been running the earlier RC images and was surprised to LightDM as the default login manager, but now this seems to have changed back to Slim.
Is there any reason for this, just curious, that's all.
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Rue
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#2 2025-11-06 11:39:48
- fsmithred
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Re: [SOLVED] Lightdm replaced by Slim in Excalibur ?
Yeah, slim was creating a black window that covered the desktop when autologin was set (the default in the live environment) so I switched to using lightdm. Slim got fixed for the release, so I switched back to it.
https://bugs.devuan.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=857
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#4 Yesterday 17:01:44
- fredbird67
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Re: [SOLVED] Lightdm replaced by Slim in Excalibur ?
Thanx, FSmithRed (does the FSmith part refer to Fort Smith, Ark., by any chance? I'm in Missouri, only 30 minutes from the Arkansas line). I'm in the process of switching the base of my distro, F3OS, from Debian to Devuan. On login managers, I'm using LightDM's Slick Greeter on the Xfce edition, but plan to use Slim for the ultra-lightweight IceWM edition (just started on it last week, having figured out over the weekend how to get it to reboot or shut down via the menu, which took me a while to figure out, after much frustration -- and a vow to never give up).
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