Help installing Slim

[chasha420]

Hi,

I wanted to change my default login manager that came with Gnome 3 (gdm) and move towards slim since I'm a full time openbox user.

I've looked at Gentoo docs: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SLiM

But I'm seeking your advice as to what else I need to do to make it work...I mean I haven't actually gone ahead with configuring slim since it's my production machine and I don't want to screw it up.

So if anyone who has already done this or know what needs to be done to get it up and running please let me know.

The gentoo docs is quite straight forward and easy to understand, it instructs to just replace gdm with slim in /etc/conf.d/xdm after that there's a brief guide on configurations but I'm wondering if Sabayon will act nice if I follow that.

Thanks.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Your easiest course of action would simply be to try it and see. I use SLiM with Xfce in Gentoo on one of my machines and it was easy to set up, so I doubt you'd have any trouble. Just install the slim package and edit /etc/conf.d/xdm and /etc/env.d/90xsession as per the Gentoo Wiki instructions. Oh, and if you have an ~/.xinitrc file, delete it.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-71 ... ml#7123834

[chasha420]

Thanks as always Fitz

I've been looking into various forums & stuff for a comparison between slim vs gdm & I didn't get much useful info.

Most people in those forums (mainly crunchbang) claim that gdm uses like slightly more resource than slim & the performance difference is pretty much negligible + if you use slim you get the benefit of customising theme & stuff but if you decide to switch to another wm / de that process has to be manual.

So overall I don't think it's worth giving slim a try at the moment, perhaps another time.

Also I looked into the CoreCDX release of Sabayon and it seems like it has pretty much gnome-3 dependencies built into it...too much stuff that I don't need so I'm considering installing from Spin base release and install openbox into that.

Can anyone tell me what you get with Spin base release? Thanks.