nep-nori
May 11th, 2015, 06:34 PM
From the Arch wiki article (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CDM): "CDM is a minimalistic, yet full-featured replacement for login-managers like slim, kdm, gdm and qingy that provides a fast, dialog-based login system without the overhead of the X Window System or the instability of qingy. Written in pure bash, CDM has almost no dependencies, yet supports multiple users/sessions and can start virtually any DE/WM."
As a user with a glorified toaster, I'm always on the hunt for the most simplistic and lightweight options possible that don't sacrifice ease of use, and CDM seems like it would fit that bill. Now, there was a discussion here in the Ubuntu forums (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1350912) way back when and the very last post said there could be a .deb for CDM "soon", but it seems it fell through the cracks. I guess this thread is just me begging for someone with the right connections and/or clearance level to read it and go "huh, well, let's add CDM to the repos because why not?". If something like NoDM made it in I don't see why CDM shouldn't get some attention.
Here's the author's github (http://github.com/ghost1227/cdm) and a post made by some guy (http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/cdm-manage-desktops-from-the-console/) briefly going over CDM. What does everybody else feel about a console-based display manager?
As a user with a glorified toaster, I'm always on the hunt for the most simplistic and lightweight options possible that don't sacrifice ease of use, and CDM seems like it would fit that bill. Now, there was a discussion here in the Ubuntu forums (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1350912) way back when and the very last post said there could be a .deb for CDM "soon", but it seems it fell through the cracks. I guess this thread is just me begging for someone with the right connections and/or clearance level to read it and go "huh, well, let's add CDM to the repos because why not?". If something like NoDM made it in I don't see why CDM shouldn't get some attention.
Here's the author's github (http://github.com/ghost1227/cdm) and a post made by some guy (http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/cdm-manage-desktops-from-the-console/) briefly going over CDM. What does everybody else feel about a console-based display manager?