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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 00:32:55 +0100
From: Matthias Petermann <matthias@petermann-it.de>
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Hello Yuri,

On 11/25/2013 10:32 PM, Yuri wrote:
> I want to have as few packages installed as possible, and I want to
> use small window manager (dwm). But what is the thinnest display
> manager available? I know kdm and gdm both work, but both pull a ton
> of dependencies which I don't want.
>
I use x11/slim for some of my lower end systems and it appears to be
quite lightweight.

Kind regards,
Matthias