Remove LXDM from most images

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Remove LXDM from most images #271

Closed CameronNemo closed 1 year ago

CameronNemo commented 2 years ago

LXDM and LXDE are practically abandonware at this point. Unfortunately many of Void's non-LXDE images are using LXDE.

I propose the following changes:

for lxqt, use SDDM in place of LXDM
for mate, cinnnamon, and XFCE use LightDM with the basic gtk3 lightdm greeter

Edit: maldridge expressed displeasure with depending on LightDM, so this proposal is now SDDM for all the above listed images.

Vaelatern commented 2 years ago

We don't build new LXDE desktops, only XFCE and non-Xorg images (for the official images at least)

paper42 commented 2 years ago

We don't build new LXDE desktops, only XFCE and non-Xorg images (for the official images at least)

The main change would be a DM for Xfce because it currently still uses LXDM. We also still offer a script to build all variants, some of them work better than others.

What would you think about greetd? From my testing it seems to be straightforward and we could easily have different greeters for different DEs if we wanted to.

BlindRepublic commented 1 year ago

We don't build new LXDE desktops, only XFCE and non-Xorg images (for the official images at least)

The main change would be a DM for Xfce because it currently still uses LXDM. We also still offer a script to build all variants, some of them work better than others.

What would you think about greetd? From my testing it seems to be straightforward and we could easily have different greeters for different DEs if we wanted to.

The only greeter for greetd in the repos is tuigreet. gtkgreet would fit Xfce if it were packaged.

What would the issue with Lightdm in comparison to LXDM be in this case?