Center text in SLiM Login Manager

I'm working on some SLiM themes and I was wondering if it's possible to center the text of the username and password the user is typing? It always starts from the left and I haven't found any option to change this behaviour? Is it not possible?
I hope someone knows a definite answer for this, cheers.

Don't think so. You can reposition the input boxes but SLiM offers no text outlining option to my knowledge.

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Minimalist LogIn Manager

Hey!
I'm a little bit tired of my text-login, so I think I will look after a new login-manager are there something others than GDM/KDM/XDM? I'll think it could be nice if it's in GTK - I'm using Xfce4.4

Kris wrote:Where does the theme files lay?
/usr/share/slim/themes - if you're still interested.
BTW - a quick glance at slim's filelist would have told you that. There's a slim-themes package available, but it's also very easy to make your own.

Which login manager? [SOLVED]

I have discovered that I was unable to startxfce4 as a user because I did not install a login manager yet. Would you reccomend xorg-xdm or sLim? Why?
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Blake Gideon wrote:
Does root have an ~/.xinitrc?
EDIT: I'm fine with just having console login.
Please do not run a window manager as root. But to answer your question, root can have xinitrc too, yes. It's not there if you didn't create it manually...so just create it with any text editor you want.
[edit] typos
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[SOLVED] Hiding Desktop Environment Text in SLiM

I did the prerequisite search, and have read the arch wiki's customization instructions for SLiM over and over, but I can't figure out if it's possible/how to hide the text SLiM has at the bottom of the login that tells you what DE you're logging into. I'm sure it's a simple fix but it really is bothering me. Google hasn't helped much either!
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I don't use SLiM myself, but are you saying this didn't work? If not, then it's probably hard-coded into the SLiM theme you're using. Incidentally, if you're the only one using the machine and have only one environment installed, there's no real reason for a graphical login manager. They really only exist in the *NIX world to let people choose between multiple installed desktop environments/window managers.

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I just applied update:
Update Rollup 3 for Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 - Virtual Machine Manager (KB2965413)
and (KB2965414) but it failed to install.
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FYI. I've had the same issue after I installed Update Rollup 3 (KB2965413), seeing the exact same error on event log. Tried to start the service manually, getting service unable to start error. This is a machine running
with Windows Server 2012 Standard. Solution for me is simple. I just install
KB2965414 (Update Rollup 3 for SCVMM 2012 R2), reboot the server, and the SCVMM service auto start up by itself.

Enter login manager and X respawn issue

Wondering if anyone else has this. I have a login for myself and one for my wife and 'normal' people who don't want/know how to use a tiling WM and firefox-pentadacytl, and want to have a graphical login manager. SLiM caused too many hard crashes where I'd lose the keyboard. GDM and KDM have too much cruft and LXDM is even less stable. Enter looked good, but on logout from openbox (not ScrotWM), tty7 locks up and I'll get the "X respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes message" in my logs/tty1.
With SLiM it looks like this is an auth. file and/or xorg.conf error from what I've read. I've been relying on X to auto-config and don't have an xorg.conf.
Where do I want to start to work around this?
I'll post my initab and Xorg logs in a second or two.
Relevant inittab lines:
# Boot to console
#id:3:initdefault:
# Boot to X11
id:5:initdefault:
rc::sysinit:/etc/rc.sysinit
rs:S1:wait:/etc/rc.single
rm:2345:wait:/etc/rc.multi
rh:06:wait:/etc/rc.shutdown
su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin -p
# -8 options fixes umlauts problem on login
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -i -8 38400 tty1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty2 linux
c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty3 linux
c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty4 linux
c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty5 linux
c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty6 linux
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/enter >/dev/null 2>&1
Xorg.0.log:
Oct 23 15:53:35 thimkbrick init: Switching to runlevel: 5
...skipping...
Oct 29 19:14:00 thimkbrick dhcpcd[621]: wlan0: leased 192.168.5.11 for infinity
Oct 29 19:14:00 thimkbrick dhcpcd[621]: forked to background, child pid 645
Oct 29 19:18:12 thimkbrick init: Switching to runlevel: 5
Oct 29 19:18:12 thimkbrick enter: Starting X server. [...x7 more]
Oct 29 19:18:12 thimkbrick init: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Oct 29 19:18:12 thimkbrick enter: Starting X server.
Oct 29 19:18:18 thimkbrick enter: Server timed out [...x8 more]
Oct 29 19:18:23 thimkbrick enter: Logging in user
Oct 29 19:23:13 thimkbrick enter: Starting X server. [...x8 more]
Oct 29 19:23:13 thimkbrick init: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Oct 29 19:23:13 thimkbrick enter: Starting X server.
Oct 29 19:23:19 thimkbrick enter: Server timed out [...x8 more]
Last edited by nathan28 (2011-10-29 23:28:56)

Took another pass at the login manager thing again today. Just tried to re-install xorg-xkbcomp, to little apparent effect.
Logging out of ScrotWM works. Logging into Openbox (via my other user's login) works. Attempting to log out of openbox, either with the r-click logout or with $ openbox --exit, drops me to an X root window and enter does not reappear without # killall X or #telinit 3 followed by #telinit 5.
Is is possible that this is a result of the
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session openbox-session
line in the regular user .xinitrc? Otherwise I'm at a loss for ideas besides hacking the Enter code.
Mostly giving up on this for now.
Last edited by nathan28 (2011-12-26 19:04:48)

Setting monitor resolution in the login manager, before session launch

Hey guys,
I want to have SLiM set the resolution to "auto" once it boots. At the moment, it seems like it boots directly into 800x600, and not into my native resolution, 1366x768. Sometimes I have an external monitor connected as well, and it's a good deal larger.
I was thinking it would be possible to run "xrandr --auto" which does this for me, but I am unable to see how exactly this is done through SLiM.
If it becomes necessary, I'm willing to change login manager to something else. gdm, xdm, kdm, you name it.
Thanks,
gonX

Are you using a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file?
If not, then you may want to try setting up a basic one with settings for your video card, monitor, and screen that includes the resolution that you want slim to use.
Before XRandR, it was set up in the xorg.conf file.
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I find that it's easier for me to log in via the console and startx manually. That way if I break my X.... It's happened.
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Use links or scripts to set up the X sessions
Use tdminit file to configure TDM
Use tdmexit file to autostart some X programs
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Dialog and text user interface
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Have fun!

mytbk wrote:
Dialog UI
http://t-display-manager.googlecode.com … dialog.png
Text UI
http://t-display-manager.googlecode.com … m_text.png
Please don't do that.
Thank you
All the best,
-HG
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Have a look at these links:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinitrc
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Login_manager

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Using a nvidia card with twinview...
Thanks for the help,
Nate

Slim doesn't support twinview yet, although this feature is considered for future releases, AFAIK. You can see the feature request and the slim devs answer here:
http://developer.berlios.de/bugs/?func= … up_id=2663
I use GDM on my twinview setup and slim on my laptop at the moment.

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In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
> I have an MSI application that is set to FORCE CACHE as well as FORCE
> RUN
>
> I'm using a MACRO to specify the UNC path for the files (common ->
> sources as well as the transforms).
>
> I have two app objects (two copies, really). One in our main site,
> another in a remote site.
>
> The GUIDs have been synced
>
> I setup the "site list" as per the docs (pointed "remote site app" to
> the "main site app")
>
> I have my Novell Client 4.91 SP2 using IP Address costing =2 (ping
> time).
>
> When I login as the "remote" user, it tries to cache the application.
> Only 51 minutes remaining (should be 5 minutes as I'm on the "main" site
> subnet and the ping should've responded the quickest from here).
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
>
I'm doing something wrong. I guess it only works with NON-Cached apps
that are distributed.

Dependency free login manager?

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Last edited by Misbah (2012-02-14 05:54:38)

Misbah wrote:
The only suggestion I've gotten so far is Slim, which looks nice, but I was wondering if there are any other relatively dependency-free login managers out there?
Also just to make sure, I don't HAVE to use a login manager right? I can just log in vc1 and have startx run automatically after login right? A login manager would be nice though, to have graphical settings selections n stuff as opposed to knowing all the options and doing it textually. That's kind of why I was looking for an alternative to Slim as well, because you simply use different username logins to achieve different options, ie) shut down and stuff.
There is also Enter its in AUR, but it's still very early devolopment. And you need to make the rc-script yourself. But it does work. More simple than SLiM but not faster.

Share your login manager screens/configs

I haven't seen a login manager sharing thread yet on here.
My contribution could be skipped as I have not done any customization yet, but posting a thread without picture at all would just feel wrong..
Have my SLiM:
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There is my SLiM:
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Login Manager and running .xinitrc commands

Evenin' geezers,
Just a quick one - I'm gonna do a bit more digging around, probably find something, but:
If I want to run, say, Enlightenment, I can stick it in .xinitrc. Then, if I want to run adesklets with it, I can stick that in .xinitrc as well. But, if I want to run some other environments as well, and I use a login manager, how can I get adesklets to load? It doesn't run the .xinitrc script anymore.
So,
a) is there a place to put login scripts that start adesklets regardless off what environment I use?
b) if not, is there somewhere to make the login manager call adesklets somehow?
I'm sure it can't be too complicated, but I can't get it quite right.
Cheers,
Thom

From KDE FAQ:
How do I run a program at KDE startup?
There are many ways to do that. If what you want to do is to run some scripts that would set some environment variables (for example, to start gpg-agent, ssh-agent and others), you can put these scripts into $KDEHOME/env/ and make sure their names end in .sh. $KDEHOME is usually a folder named .kde (note the period at the beginning) in your home folder. If you want scripts to be executed for all KDE users, you can put them under $KDEDIR/env/, where $KDEDIR is the prefix KDE was installed to (you can find this out using the command kde-config --prefix).
If you wish to start a program after KDE has started, you may want to use the Autostart folder. To add entries to the Autostart folder:
1. Open Konqueror.
2. Select Go->Autostart from the menubar.
3. Right-click in the window view area and select Create New->File->Link to Application
4. Click on the Application tab in the window that appears and enter the name of the command to run in the Command text box.

[SOLVED] Shutdown not possible without login manager

When I login using slim as user, everything is fine.
Automatic login without slim changes the rights of my user.
When dbus is active as a daemon in rc.conf, wicd works fine (without dbus wicd would not work), but only xfce4 log-out is avaiblable. Xfce4-Shutdown and -restart is inactive.
I'm not using a login manager, but mingetty, see
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Start_X_at_Boot
(used slim, at that stage I didn't have these kind of problems).
according to the wiki
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Au … al_console
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Au … al_console
/etc/inittab
id:3:initdefault:
rc::sysinit:/etc/rc.sysinit
rs:S1:wait:/etc/rc.single
rm:2345:wait:/etc/rc.multi
rh:06:wait:/etc/rc.shutdown
su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin -p
# -8 options fixes umlauts problem on login
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --autologin hk tty1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty2 linux
c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty3 linux
c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty4 linux
c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty5 linux
c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty6 linux
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
My ~/.bash_profile
if [[ -z $DISPLAY && $(tty) = /dev/tty1 ]]; then
#startx &> /dev/null &
exec ck-launch-session startxfce4
#xinit /usr/bin/xfce4-session
fi
I have tried different commands in my ~.xinitrc, but no change of behaviour
1. exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch startxfce4 (I read somewhere that ck must be started before dbus-launch)
2. exec ck-launch-session startxfce4
When dbus is inactive in the rc.conf daemon's session, wicd does not work, but I can shut down the computer.
Last edited by mumpf (2012-02-13 18:27:21)

it works now with the help of a debian thread, unfortunately in German
http://debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=131087
three additional files in /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local have to set up (exactly the way they are in the thread):
etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.consolekit.pkla
etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.udisks.pkla
etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.upower.pkla
For Archlinux the group powerdev has to be replaced by power and users by storage
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After a restart all should work (mount and restart works on my installation now).

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