[gentoo-user] slim login manager issues

[gentoo-user] slim login manager issues

[Laurent Lejeune]

Hi all,

I'm having some issues with the slim login manager, which suits my very
basic needs very well, except from those two things:

    * When starting, the keyboard doesn't respond quite well. The
      characters don't show on screen imediately, and sometimes, it gets
      even worse: it freezes for maybe 1-2 seconds, then the first key i
      hit gets "stuck", which basically means it repeats that caracter a
      fine dozen of times.
    * when i have to restart x, slim doesn't restarts itself up, i'm
      thrown back to basic console login prompt.

Any help greatly appreciated.

cya.

Re: [gentoo-user] slim login manager issues

[Sebastian Günther]

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* Laurent Lejeune (olol85@gmail.com) [08.06.09 19:19]:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm having some issues with the slim login manager, which suits my very
> basic needs very well, except from those two things:
> 
>     * When starting, the keyboard doesn't respond quite well. The
>       characters don't show on screen imediately, and sometimes, it gets
>       even worse: it freezes for maybe 1-2 seconds, then the first key i
>       hit gets "stuck", which basically means it repeats that caracter a
>       fine dozen of times.

I have that problem, too. But upstream has an even bigger problem: 
Maintainer needed.

>     * when i have to restart x, slim doesn't restarts itself up, i'm
>       thrown back to basic console login prompt.
> 

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261359

> Any help greatly appreciated.
> 
> cya.
> 

I think until there is a new maintainer, nothing of this will get fixed 
anytime soon. :-(

Sebastian

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Re: [gentoo-user] slim login manager issues

[Laurent Lejeune]

Sebastian Günther wrote:
> * Laurent Lejeune (olol85@gmail.com) [08.06.09 19:19]:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm having some issues with the slim login manager, which suits my very
>> basic needs very well, except from those two things:
>>
>>     * When starting, the keyboard doesn't respond quite well. The
>>       characters don't show on screen imediately, and sometimes, it gets
>>       even worse: it freezes for maybe 1-2 seconds, then the first key i
>>       hit gets "stuck", which basically means it repeats that caracter a
>>       fine dozen of times.
>>     
>
> I have that problem, too. But upstream has an even bigger problem: 
> Maintainer needed.
>
>   
>>     * when i have to restart x, slim doesn't restarts itself up, i'm
>>       thrown back to basic console login prompt.
>>
>>     
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261359
>
>   
>> Any help greatly appreciated.
>>
>> cya.
>>
>>     
>
> I think until there is a new maintainer, nothing of this will get fixed 
> anytime soon. :-(
>
> Sebastian
>
>   
I noticed that by changing the theme, the keyboard freeze issue
disappeared. As for the x restart sending me back to console login
prompt, i still have to investigate that.

Re: [gentoo-user] slim login manager issues

[Laurent Lejeune]

Sebastian Günther wrote:
> * Laurent Lejeune (olol85@gmail.com) [08.06.09 19:19]:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm having some issues with the slim login manager, which suits my very
>> basic needs very well, except from those two things:
>>
>>     * When starting, the keyboard doesn't respond quite well. The
>>       characters don't show on screen imediately, and sometimes, it gets
>>       even worse: it freezes for maybe 1-2 seconds, then the first key i
>>       hit gets "stuck", which basically means it repeats that caracter a
>>       fine dozen of times.
>>     
>
> I have that problem, too. But upstream has an even bigger problem: 
> Maintainer needed.
>
>   
>>     * when i have to restart x, slim doesn't restarts itself up, i'm
>>       thrown back to basic console login prompt.
>>
>>     
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261359
>
>   
>> Any help greatly appreciated.
>>
>> cya.
>>
>>     
>
> I think until there is a new maintainer, nothing of this will get fixed 
> anytime soon. :-(
>
> Sebastian
>
>   
This is a pity since slim suits my needs perfectly except from that.
Anyway, I'm falling back to xdm, which does the job fine but lacks the
eye-candy...

Re: [gentoo-user] slim login manager issues

[Sebastian Günther]

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* Laurent Lejeune (olol85@gmail.com) [10.06.09 11:49]:

> This is a pity since slim suits my needs perfectly except from that.
> Anyway, I'm falling back to xdm, which does the job fine but lacks the
> eye-candy...

Same with me, but this helped me to a nicer XDM:

http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/XDM/Customization
http://www.pilgerer.org/pw/xdm-multi

Sebastian

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