On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 1:57 AM, Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 12:55:09AM +0000, Douglas R. Reno wrote: > > Hello, > > > > This is probably not the right list to report this, I realize that. > > According to http://osdir.com/ml/plasma-devel/2014-01/msg00208.html and > > > http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kde-workspace.git&a=commit&h=8577abf894a661bc0700adc72513dacf0b7dca7f > , > > KDM is being retired. This is the only Display Manager that I know of > that > > BLFS Supports that I can use multiple desktop environments with. Is there > > any way that SDDM or LightDM could be added to the book, or possibly > > another replacement? I use KDM on my BLFS box and when I update to KDE5, > I > > expect that it will no longer work and that future builds of BLFS will > not > > contain it. What display manager does the list recommend I use? I do not > > like logging in from the command line, and it is very hard to teach > family > > members who use my computer occasionally how to do so. > > > > Thank you, > > > > Douglas Reno > > I dare say that whoever is editing kdm will come up with something > when the time comes. Personally, I hate DMs : I did use gdm for a > while, until a change in it prevented me from seeing _where_ my > altered bootscripts were failing to shut down, and I tried what I > think was lightdm, but didn't like it (e.g. unreadably small font). > > Do you or your users regularly change desktop environments ? If > not, what about a variant of what our late colleague Andy used to > use, second post in the thread at: > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lfs.beyond.support/41986 > > More specifically, do you have some strange app that only works > (for your use case) in its own DE ? My belief is that everything > will work in other DEs, and that the menu system ought to make > non-native apps possible to find. For most users of BLFS, the > problem is building all the dependencies, but you must have already > done that to have multiple DEs which you can switch between. > > But I suspect that I don't understand your problem - I have no > problem with using startx - occasionally, on a test box, I hack my > .xinitrc to allow me to specify _which_ wm to use, more often I just > comment out my normal wm and uncomment the one I want to briefly > test. Similarly, the shiny! shiny! fat! slow! nature of kde makes it > something I prefer to avoid unless I'm testing that part of thebook > ;-) > > ĸen > Hello again, Multiple desktop environments are used... I prefer KDE while everyone else likes LXDE or XFCE. I have used KDE for a while before I started using BLFS, so it was the easiest transition for me. I have (of course) had to learn XFCE and LXDE to help family members out with it though. I think I will use LightDM as suggested by Armin. Ken, I share your feelings about KDE but I originally found it easiest to transition over from Windows with (Something about it seems nice I guess). Thank you, Douglas Reno
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