From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Mar 15 14:36:50 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71941D0E294 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:36:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm25-vm4.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (nm25-vm4.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com [212.82.97.37]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E60C5B66 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:36:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s2048; t=1489588600; bh=YU8cLfqAVyS+pLSNdZD752QR5QvHN+/HTRBFdkN8ows=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From:Subject; b=C+ALDigTX0Td59dDKxVF9hgEbWCprslhpt9rqe0Xyf2roCpSIon8qfUGr6honJlLokal+SeyKGlPWBfpUBRjIHUn02IHSwWa9pmcODD7F/09pWVNOPlcWiImxZc/hMp7mfi/syGh82i/eKnGIF90wvf/cPgYCy01RwJ9O7XhZuRdoVl5U10y3ofpZy6K4yD9yJ8QwpYVQoGJ+lyDFe7YRF1K7A9PcHL9Yi7Gowl3FhXTwTtIn2bDDWuQvcjU9eK8ncXZJbBH8kCqWNpXy0Y1F7/Ku3k/Rae4Uy5KhhlBOPMBHrmkfHNmhdC208BvS7Wy6XOyHeB/Q1s6/nd72+RTPA== Received: from [212.82.98.61] by nm25.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Mar 2017 14:36:40 -0000 Received: from [46.228.39.79] by tm14.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Mar 2017 14:36:40 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp116.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Mar 2017 14:36:40 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 935165.5439.bm@smtp116.mail.ir2.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: CsAKmJwVM1nYIQJbmkGUS4Fdy1sgYwCafGh_w9uLCTXDOsM nzyfcywU0GeLXkySuSsRx2p66EqV8uTYk_drEQUaX.6a.OhPNGr1qa00PN6J O3t_sX2VIZAg.RE3tMhSsTUnD7KOZ7qRP0TDgMrs36h1hkSjDtb7ykB2rbD9 fOmhTaBnShDFjqjpva2.9K5y12t4dJmKuv6jxOMURQe9ogUYNGVj15xcGN1w Aij0jSUbqgKxko.p6L6dHeGwwSc74fPhtO.1vV0HOIFHFSbsJpiAc6rIi8MU 6LHsAouje_KZxuBPB1PctJjxypCjmnCw9_RJW.12ySmjz208EiuIir07C16h N2Va5MuppqIK8VcLlZo_nZL70Pl9Qn.SAOEmvKGqf.Wds.sghwPycFC_Mptv aPwMJdpAWhVNj3DkHiIQy0vknhD8L8Fr3U8raaXGSSWcIDOxTJACCFjLg0X9 GtuIrk2nec3zB6fs6mDTrAbePF3pKc3rWqBcNReCD7W4URkx_0A8T8dSsL45 5pefJPF26QjWTle_MO.NXMRnn9rDQHe19W14g5wqVp2uEUCAHxU7qJty7r7x RClQyU4PyIxQ0l9cIZeITLQgLKWNDrw-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:36:39 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: about display managers... Message-ID: <20170315153639.47ea59f7@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1e7c8769-36e1-fc80-d897-484b9468a605@uni-dortmund.de> References: <1e7c8769-36e1-fc80-d897-484b9468a605@uni-dortmund.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.1-19-ge7206c0 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-arch-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:36:50 -0000 On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:12:08 +0100, Christian Baer wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA512 > >Greetings programs! > >I am setting up a new laptop here and doing things a little >differently. The past machines I set up all had KDE4, which I learned >to regret[1]. I'm trying to do things a little differently. > >Because I like to play with different WM and desktops, I have installed >Lumina, Xfce and Openbox - there might be more. But there is the >thing about the DM. On Opensuse Leap I can install KDM5 (which I >actually do like) as a separate package (with very little KDE clutter). >FreeBSD doesn't have it as a separate package, so I'd have to install >KDE completely - which I am trying to avoid. Strangely, GDM is there as >a separate package, but since it wants to install the current Gnome3 >(~950MB), I won't go down that road either. XDM works but looks like >it's stuck in the early 90s. > >I have heard of other display managers, but I can't really say I have >used any. And unfortunately, the term "display manager" in duckduckgo >and others give me a ton of stuff that actually involves displays (as >in hardware). So that wasn't too helpful either. > >Can someone recommend a DM[2], that can be installed under FreeBSD >(without having to install a complete desktop along side it), >preferably one that looks modern attractive (customers will see this >laptop) and makes changing between desktops nice and simple? DMs could have different greeters and themes, perhaps you should google for "freebsd name_of_a_DM greeter". The DMs as well as the greeters could have configuration files where you could change the appearance. One DM you didn't mention is "lightdm". I don't know how good it's maintained for FreeBSD, but there at least seemingly is a port for it and a gtk-greeter. https://www.freshports.org/x11/lightdm https://www.freshports.org/x11/lightdm-gtk-greeter/ When installing "equal" DMs from different Linux distros' official repositories, I noticed that they are not always equal to configure, so if you build for FreeBSD, you might need care about options when building the DM. Regards, Ralf