Harman Patil (Editor)

SLiM

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Developer(s)
  
Nobuhiro Iwamatsu

Written in
  
C++

Development status
  
Active

SLiM

Original author(s)
  
Simone Rota & Johannes Winkelmann

Stable release
  
1.3.6 / October 1, 2013; 3 years ago (2013-10-01)

Repository
  
github.com/axs-gentoo/slim-git.git

Simple Login Manager (SLiM) is a graphical display manager for the X Window System that can be run independently of any window manager or desktop environment. SLiM aims to be light, completely configurable, and suitable for machines on which remote login functionalities are not needed.

Contents

SLiM was forked from Per Lidén's Login.app program, with contributions from Martin Parm for PAM-related classes. SLiM is currently developed by Simone Rota and Johannes Winkelmann, and is currently maintained by Nobuhiro Iwamatsu.

As of March, 2016, SLiM seems to be abandoned. It is not fully compatible with systemd.

As of September, 2016, GhostBSD 10.3 replaced GDM with SLiM.

Features

SLiM supports the following features:

  • PNG and XFT support for alpha transparency and anti-aliased fonts
  • External themes support
  • Configurable runtime options: X server, login / shutdown / reboot commands
  • Single (GDM-like) or double (XDM-like) input control
  • Can load predefined user at startup
  • Configurable welcome / shutdown messages
  • Random theme selection

    • Dependencies

    SLiM has the following dependencies:

  • X11
  • libpng
  • libjpeg
  • freetype

    • References

    SLiM Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA