Software:SLiM

Short description: X Window System session manager

SLiM

The default SLiM theme
Original author(s)	Simone Rota & Johannes Winkelmann
Developer(s)	Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
Stable release	1.3.6 / October 1, 2013 (2013-10-01)
Written in	C++
Operating system	Linux, other unix-like
Platform	IA-32, x86-64
Size	~440 KiB
Available in	Multilingual
Type	X display manager
License	GNU GPLv2

Simple Login Manager (SLiM) is a graphical display manager for the X Window System that can be run independently of any window manager or desktop environment. SLiM aims to be light, completely configurable, and suitable for machines on which remote login functionalities are not needed.

SLiM was forked from Per Lidén's Login.app program, with contributions from Martin Parm for PAM-related classes. SLiM is currently developed by Simone Rota and Johannes Winkelmann, and is currently maintained by Nobuhiro Iwamatsu.

As of March, 2016, SLiM seems to be abandoned. It is not fully compatible with systemd.

As of September, 2016, GhostBSD 10.3 replaced GDM with SLiM.

Features

SLiM supports the following features:

• PNG and XFT support for alpha transparency and anti-aliased fonts
• External themes support
• Configurable runtime options: X server, login / shutdown / reboot commands
• Single (GDM-like) or double (XDM-like) input control
• Can load predefined user at startup
• Configurable welcome / shutdown messages
• Random theme selection

Dependencies

SLiM has the following dependencies:

• X11
• libpng
• libjpeg
• freetype

See also

1. LightDM, the formerly Ubuntu’s default display manager, now GDM
2. SDDM, the KDE Plasma 5 display manager
3. KDM, the KDE Plasma 4 display manager
4. GDM, the GNOME display manager
5. Other display managers

External links

• SLiM at GitHub