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SLiM (Simple Login Manager) is a graphical login manager for X11. It aims to be simple, fast and independent from the various desktop environments. SLiM was originally based on latest stable release of Login.app by Per Lidén.
The SLiM project used to be hosted on Berlios.de with a mirror on SourceForge. Then the code got moved to Github. Then all the maintainers lost interest and it died. Nine years later, I'm still using it as I find it the most easily configurable, most lightweight option for the small Linux systems I build. But with upstream being dead and Gentoo needing 13 patch files to make it work, there was a risk it would vanish from the repository. So I forked it, applied all the patches, plus some of my own, and started my own spin-off here.
Features
- PNG and XFT support for alpha transparency and anti-aliased fonts
- Support of external themes
- Configurable runtime options: X server, login / shutdown / reboot commands
- Single (GDM-like) or double (XDM-like) input control
- Can load predefined users on startup
- Random theme selection
- Compatible with SysV/OpenRC/runit orsystemd
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Thanks for reviving this great DE. Found this when I installed SLIM on Arch Linux, and discovered it was actually SLIM-Fork!
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I've been using SLiM for over six/seven years and an very happy with it. ----- It is truly an *excellent* example of Linux philosophy at work, I liked it much more than any of the other DMs I tried. ----- ie: lightweight, easy to configure, requires minimal dependencies and is independent of the DE. ----- It ticks *all* the boxes. 8^) ----- Unfortunately, in my opinion, the Linux ecosystem is slowly but steadily moving in the opposite direction. ----- On top of that, reading things like this was quite disheartening: ----- "... for SLiM the situation is even more extreme because maintenance stopped back in 2014 and as a result it doesn't support user login sessions correctly. The code will continue to rot over time. Anyway it runs X under the root user and so should be avoided ..." ----- So thank you *very* much for taking up the slack and getting things up to speed with SLiM. ----- Now, if there is *anything* more I could possibly ask of you it would be *this*: ----- please keep SLiM as simple and straightforward as possible, ignore the slew of requests for new "features" which you will receive from people who do not understand what "Simple Log in Manager" means. ----- If anyone wants a DM with more bling and bloat, true to the "Linux=choice", they have a lot to choose from already. ----- With respect to other distributions picking up SLiM, I am quite sure that Devuan Linux will happily host it in its repositories. ----- I for one am pushing for it to be Devuan's default display manager and if that comes to be, all Devuan derivatives will follow suit.Reply from slim-forkPosted 2022-12-29
Thanks for your encouraging words. I have no intention of adding bloat but will fix things that are missing (like the message on login failure). As to distro adoption, Devuan has now packaged V1.3.9 in "unstable" (the devs are very helpful and guided me in producing a proper package) so that's a good start. -
Great that you are resurrecting this project! Keep going!Reply from slim-forkPosted 2022-11-18
Thank you. I'm not sure how much progress I can make on persuading anybody to take this forked version for a distro, though.