slim

T.C. Hollingsworth tchollingsworth at gmail.com
Sun Nov 27 03:11:32 UTC 2011


On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 7:53 PM, solarflow99 <solarflow99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> It looks as if SLIM has been abandoned, with no package in F-16 it makes me
> wonder what the chance it could be included again....

slim has only been orphaned, and is still present in F16:
$ cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 16 (Verne)
# yum info slim
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Available Packages
Name        : slim
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 1.3.2
Release     : 7.fc16
Size        : 98 k
Repo        : fedora
Summary     : Simple Login Manager
URL         : http://slim.berlios.de/
License     : GPLv2+
Description : SLiM (Simple Login Manager) is a graphical login manager for X11.
            : It aims to be simple, fast and independent from the various
            : desktop environments.
            : SLiM is based on latest stable release of Login.app by Per Lidén.
            :
            : In the distribution, slim may be called through a
wrapper, slim-dynwm,
            : which determines the available window managers using the
freedesktop
            : information and modifies the slim configuration file accordingly,
            : before launching slim.

If you want it to stick around, you can maintain it:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers

-T.C.


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