For the longest time more or less the same was said of Xorg-server.
But there it is, born again so to speak.

https://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/in … 1.1.tar.gz

Reminds me of reports of deaths being greatly exaggerated ...  8^D

This thanks to someone (Povilas Kanapickas) who stepped up.
And despite this dumb Python2 decision, I believe Wicd will also survive.

Apparently SLiM (ArchWiki) it is not fully compatible with systemd, including logind sessions.

It is an excellent example of Linux philosophy, I like it much more than any of the other DMs I have tried.
ie: lightweight, easy to configure, requires minimal dependencies and is independent of the DE: ticks all the boxes.

SLiM works for me on Devuan so that's what I use.
I recall that installing SLiM solved all the auth/log-in issues I was having in Devuan by not having a DM.

--> I think it should be the default Devuan DM.

I have read that GhostBSD 10.3 dropped GDM in favour of SLiM back in 2016 and is still there.
See http://www.ghostbsd.org/10.3_enoch

Hopefully someone will eventually step up and update it so it can be used with non-systemd distributions.

Use a systemd distro?
Then use one of those other bloated DMs.

If I cannot have it in the future, I'll just opt for not using a DM and see how I manage to work things out.

Best,

A.

rolfie

Anyway removing python2 from every distro is grave mistake because it makes python a terrible choice for long term development.

Ahh ...
That accessibility.

Thanks for clearing that up for me.
So many things one takes for granted in life ...  8^|

Good to know.

The Devuan Package Information page shows this:

And the wicd home page says:

The previous entry in the Announcements was from 2014-12-21, almost seven years ago.
Seems more like a coma than deep sleep.

I'm in no hurry to leave Beowulf, so I can wait.

Thanks for the heads-up.

Best,

A.

Note that slim (the default Display Manager for xfce) is not
accessible.

Q: why is this so?

I believe that relates to accessibility features for the visually impaired.  If I weren't so lazy, I would actually read the Release Notes to confirm.

Someone on the team is attempting to port it to python3.  Keep your fingers crossed.

I have just been reading Devuan 4 Chimaera Release Notes and saw two things that called my attention:

1.

Q: why is this so?
It works perfectly well in Beowulf, why not in Chimaera?

The Devuan Package Information page says it is available for chimera, daedalus and ceres:

slim
1.3.6-5.2+devuan1
http://deb.devuan.org/merged  ceres/main amd64
http://deb.devuan.org/merged  daedalus/main  amd64
http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera/main amd64

2.
wicd

I have always liked wicd, other conneciton managers I tried gave me endless grief.

I think I have other applications that depend on python2 ...

Thanks in advance,

A.