Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:12:08 +0100 From: Christian Baer <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: about display managers... Message-ID: <1e7c8769-36e1-fc80-d897-484b9468a605@uni-dortmund.de>
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-----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? Cheers! Chris [1] Akonadi and the likes IMHO simply blow, but I don't want to start a discussion about that here. [2] or two, or three... :-) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iL4EAREKAGYFAljJS7hfFIAAAAAALgAoaXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3Bl bnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldDgzRDQzNjY2NUYzMDVBMTYxMDY0ODYwNzMy MDIxMzQyODdFMUJGQjIACgkQMgITQofhv7LEFgD/Ra7A+xBV4sa0tszbZVliF9Yx g9/aFXmj3Xr96B0H9/4A/R6sQAP52QW6ElYkSQxy0rAPMNhh5wIZvZ7Y9KPc3dG7 =Cqo5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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