From: Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com   
      
   On Wed, 03 May 2023 22:41:19 +0000, Sylvain Robitaille wrote:   
   > :-/  On the other hand, it *is* open-source ... I'm not above hacking in   
   > features I believe I need, if I need such features ...   
      
   Yes, but such a fix, if not wanted by upstream developers, basically   
   means that you then have to clone and maintain your own login manager. It   
   is not allways easy to get fixes/patches approved by upstream project   
   maintainers.   
      
   I don't remember exactly which feature it was. Maybe it was the   
   possibility to list users from an LDAP or NIS server, maybe it was the   
   possibility to only list selected users. However, some googling for that   
   feature revealed that the developers did not want that feature in sddm.   
      
   For me this was the turning point when I realized that I needed to find a   
   long term solution to replace sddm with. It would not be a solution to   
   skip Slackware 15.0 and hope for a better login manager in the next   
   version of Slackware. Right now my plan is to use tdm for Slackware 15   
   and future versions of Slackware.   
      
   I evaluated a bunch of other login managers including lightdm and slim. I   
   had a number of requirements like being able to select window manager/   
   destkop environment, presenting a list of selected users from a network   
   catalog service and menu or buttons to shutdown or reboot. The login   
   manager also needed to work with screensavers to allow other users to   
   start new X sessions on another virtual console.   
      
   Tde and tdm was a little bit trickier to install than most other   
   evaluated login managers which often were standalone programs installable   
   from slackbuilds.org. Tdm (like kdm) requires most of tde installed just   
   like kdm was part of the kde-workspace package. Once installed though,   
   tdm behaved like kdm and was configured with a tmrc file looking just   
   like good old kdmrc.   
      
   The only minor annoyance with tdm is that the dialog says "Login to TDE",   
   but the important thing is that it is possible to select among all the   
   installed window managers and desktop environments. Yes, it would be   
   possible to hack the code to make it say something like "Login to   
   Slackware", but I didn't care to do that.   
      
   regards Henrik   
      
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