BSD Ports

x11/slim 1.3.6_26 DragonFly

Graphical login manager for X11, derived from Login.app

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
GPLv2
Categories
x11
Package size
252.3 KiB, 419.4 KiB installed

Description

SLiM is a desktop-independent graphical login manager for X11, derived from Login.app by Per Liden.

It aims to be light and simple, although completely configurable through themes and an option file; is suitable for machines on which remote login functionalities are not needed.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
DragonFlyx11/slim1.3.6_26
FreeBSDx11/slim1.3.6_29
NetBSDx11/slim1.4.0nb8
MidnightBSDx11/slim1.3.6_6
HardenedBSDx11/slim1.3.6_29
GhostBSDx11/slim1.3.6_29

Install

Binary package:

pkg install slim

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/x11/slim && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 19

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

Thanks to Nikos Ntarmos, it is now possible to start slim from /etc/ttys.
Please see /usr/local/etc/rc.d/slim for instructions on how to do that.

Alternatively, just put the following entry in /etc/rc.conf:

slim_enable=yes

slim requires a dbus session bus to connect to. Add the following entry in
/etc/rc.conf:

dbus_enable="YES"

*** Option "sessions" is no longer supported. ***

Now you need to put session files in the directory specified by option
"sessiondir". They should be xdg-style .desktop files.

WARNING: the default behaviour in parsing .xinitrc file has changed!
         You can now set a default xsession as described here:
         https://github.com/iwamatsu/slim/pull/1
         You can turn back to random xsession selection by compiling
         this port without the option XDEFAULT.