Re: SLiM graphical login manager and keyboard layout

[Alex Griffin]

For security reasons, GDM is highly recommended even if you don't use GNOME. As 
far as I know, it's the only currently maintained display manager that doesn't 
run X as root.

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Alex Griffin

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019, at 7:33 AM, Tanguy Le Carrour wrote:
> Hi Guix!
> 
> I'm not a Gnome user and I would like to get rid of GDM and use SLiM
> instead.
> 
> I'm struggling to set the keyboard layout as, apparently,
> slim-service-type is not supposed to be extended as gdm-service-type is.
> 
> I guess it's only a matter of copying (and adapting) the `(extend …)` and
> `(compose …)` blocks from `gdm-service-type` to `slim-service-type`. But it's
> just a guess. I've tried to define `my-slim-service-type` in my system config,
> but failed!
> 
> Any help will be welcome!
> 
> -- 
> Tanguy
> 
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