non-Xfce apps in the xfce-desktop group

[Brock Hudson]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:56:55 +0100
Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Am Samstag, den 05.03.2011, 20:42 +0100 schrieb Martin Sourada:
> > On Sat, 5 Mar 2011 14:08:13 -0500 
> > Brock Hudson wrote:
> > > I have been running LXDM with my XFCE spin for about 3 months now
> > > and haven't encountered any bugs, and I prefer it to GDM. Could
> > > we include that instead of GDM? 
> > 
> > I'd guess it already is -- I just booted F15 Alpha RC 2 XFCE Spin
> > and it uses LXDM (probably, from its looks it's neither XDM nor KDM
> > nor GDM).
> 
> This was only meant as a temporary solution for 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=674978 and
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678712
> 
> > And it looks like it would work nicely :) 
> 
> Not really, it has a number of problems:
>       * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=682299
>       * has some SELinux problems, see
>         https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635897
>       * doesn't handle dual screen 
>       * doesn't allow a keyboard selection on the login screen
> 
> The latter has changed in git already, I need to update the package.
> 
> > [OT] Btw. I'd like to try it instead of GDM as well on my already
> > installed system but I haven't got any idea how to set it up. Any
> > pointers?
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LXDE#LXDM
> 
> Regards,
> Christoph
> 
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Personally SELinux drives me up the wall sometimes, yes its nice but
even my own shell scripts occasionally have a problem with it. :( 

I do realize it doesn't handle dual screen but doesn't LXDE itself come
with a disclaimer that it isn't a powerful desktop with all the
features that most others have, but rather a more conservative approach
to the desktop? 

I do agree though keyboard selection is important though...