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Re: Replacement/Reinstatement for x11/gdm needed



Em sex, 2023-06-16 às 10:28 -0500, Jason Bacon escreveu:
On 6/14/23 04:51, David Brownlee wrote:
On Sat, 10 Jun 2023 at 19:17, pin <
voidpin%protonmail.com@localhost
> wrote:

------- Original Message -------
On Saturday, June 10th, 2023 at 7:53 PM, Dan Cîrnaț <
dan%alt.md@localhost
> wrote:

Version 2 is, however, long abandoned upstream. As others have mentioned
in this thread, pkgsrc has alternatives that might be more suitable.

slim has been unmaintained since 2013.

There's however a recent fork that is maintained, 
https://sourceforge.net/projects/slim-fork/files/

Not what we currently have in pkgsrc, we have the original unmaintained slim.

I have no interest in display managers but, perhaps moving to the maintained fork as upstream source would be a possibility.

pkgsrc/x11/slim updated to 1.4.0 (on the fork)

Interestingly it can be set to take a set of sessions to select from -
by reading .session files from $PREFIX/share/sessions. I wonder if
this is something we should be exploring (where does/did gdm take its
list of sessions?)

David

I'm not seeing any mention of sddm in this thread.

Have you tried it? 

I've found it to be the easiest way to support multiple desktop 
environments on FreeBSD, and the latest release is already in wip/sddm 
(though I haven't tried building it yet).

I have gdm-2.18.4 working for 10.99.4 AMD64 X11 MUST be from NATIVE, NOT MODULAR
while on root, You can try...
pkg_add -Uv gdm

than edit the /usr/pkg/etc/gdm/custom.conf, line 97, 98 change from inactive to active....
edit/insert gdm=YES in /etc/rc.conf
start the gdm===> service gdm start, you will get the gdm login... it is working since EVER....
gdm will NOT login on root of uid=0, so create your user and password if your user belongs to
the operator group, you will be able to reset/shutdown the machine...

If you want to try mate-desktop...=> pkg_add -Uv mate
if you want to try a full mate-desktop => pkg_add -Uv mate-lzt
to make sure it works, I recommend installing from a clean pkg
so ... pkg_delete -f '*' will remove ALL packages, whithout disturb the system
and then install the mate-full or the smaller mate-pkg
make sure X is working...
it install about 870 packages,

Enjoy


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