[xmonad] Going Gnomeless (and Unityless on Oneiric)

Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 02:10:21 CET 2012


On 17 January 2012 11:57, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 19:43, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
> <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 17 January 2012 11:32, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Yeh.  Personally I'd be removing it and installing gdm or kdm at that
>> > point.
>> >  :/
>>
>> LXDM isn't flash but seems to work rather well, with minimal deps.
>
>
> I admit to not having looked recently, but KDM used to be little more than
> xdm with prettier widgets, and very lightweight.

Lot's of qt deps nowadays, kdelibs, libkworkspace, etc.

And GDM seems to require almost all of Gnome installed nowadays (which
is why I uninstalled it and went with lxdm)


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Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
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IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com



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