For security reasons, GDM is highly recommended even if you don't use GNOME. As far as I know, it's the only currently maintained display manager that doesn't run X as root.
-- Alex Griffin On Fri, Oct 18, 2019, at 7:33 AM, Tanguy Le Carrour wrote: > Hi Guix! > > I'm not a Gnome user and I would like to get rid of GDM and use SLiM > instead. > > I'm struggling to set the keyboard layout as, apparently, > slim-service-type is not supposed to be extended as gdm-service-type is. > > I guess it's only a matter of copying (and adapting) the `(extend …)` and > `(compose …)` blocks from `gdm-service-type` to `slim-service-type`. But it's > just a guess. I've tried to define `my-slim-service-type` in my system config, > but failed! > > Any help will be welcome! > > -- > Tanguy > >
