From owner-freebsd-desktop@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 13 02:55:37 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 456955FE for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 02:55:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kevinz5000@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ob0-x234.google.com (mail-ob0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c01::234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03C2EA79 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 02:55:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f180.google.com with SMTP id ef5so552501obb.39 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:55:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=4Cl4wouNoY8uyFHHNmxE/es90P3rMEnuE9k4lraoof8=; b=p5tZ5ujN2FBTEHmj/zd/4JuoqtLYQGvrnFCMyh1DqVqgGtDwCBV7mqkmlkv+4e08KG urBuaIM6Elgw8JEaRJhyEuBSGq45N9qLoOlymic4LGFaWeVfxNsv+ApLd34zTvfnc63b 5vuVqDHc1hVsaTKtsoIb8hhSPbi/UnwvZ7YdLoj2WRW7WprpAW48afGOTLmd9tV50cVD u+1+4TCgFt2DC+ffabNlDHz2AWSC4225KPzHwf/Vy9a+qxyFPtvWQ2EkKbeqOwR3irZR S560oPKQUcJz/v2HD0mzO5k/rsMRaIBK7+rL01ZpfsvEmSibJYcSVWgAtfK3ZzEB2bp5 4Kww== X-Received: by 10.60.13.65 with SMTP id f1mr14042199oec.87.1363143336609; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:55:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sigma.local ([99.189.64.234]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ri1sm24145039obc.12.2013.03.12.19.55.35 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:55:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <513FEAA6.7020104@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:55:34 -0500 From: Kevin Zheng User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130309 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org Subject: LightDM on FreeBSD X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Using and improving FreeBSD on the desktop List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 02:55:37 -0000 Greetings, I've been using x11/slim for quite some time with my XFCE desktop. To be honest, I was looking for something a bit more prettier than slim. At the same time, I decided that I didn't want to install GDM, so I decided that porting LightDM would be beneficial for desktop users. I've managed to do some preliminary porting for lightdm, including getting the application under ports and having it compile and install. However, getting it to run seems to be more difficult. Apparently the FreeDesktop people made LightDM dependent on Plymouth, a desktop utility full of linux-isms. So right now I'm wondering if porting LightDM would be a good idea. If it is, I'm looking for help from experienced developers (possibly even folks from x11@) to help me port this monster. You can find my work-in-progress here: https://redports.org/browser/Partmedia/x11/lightdm Thanks, Kevin Zheng