LightDM

[Marcus Moeller]

Dear Christoph,

>> Concerning LightDM: it has some advantages over LXDM and is as
>> mentioned, well maintained.
>
> LXDM is maintained, too. The developer is not as active as lightdm
> upstream, but this is mostly because he is not backed up by a big
> company (lightdm is run by Canonical). He is very responsive to bug
> reports and he is using Fedora for development. This makes maintenance a
> lot easier for me.
>
> lightdm on the other hand is hard, it is developed on Ubuntu and when I
> started packaging it, required a lot of patches to get it running on
> anything but Debian/Ubuntu.

Ok, these are good points. Thanks.

Marcus

>> I am not sure about the memory footprint,
>> but I guess it should be at least as light as LXDM.
>
> No it's not.
>
> Kind regards,
> Christoph
>
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