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Lightdm is a light display manager. It's an excellent alternative to gdm, & kdm. Lightdm is used in conjunction with {{package|x11-apps/xdm}}.
Lightdm is a light display manager. It's an excellent alternative to gdm, & kdm. Lightdm is used in conjunction with {{package|x11-apps/xdm}}.


== install ==
=== install ===


<console>###i## emerge lightdm</console>
<console>###i## emerge lightdm</console>


== configuration ==
=== configuration ===
Lightdm is configured with <code>/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf</code>, and <code>/etc/conf.d/xdm</code>.  By default, lightdm ships with lightdm-gtk-greeter which is controlled by <code>/etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf</code>
Lightdm is configured with <code>/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf</code>, and <code>/etc/conf.d/xdm</code>.  By default, lightdm ships with lightdm-gtk-greeter which is controlled by <code>/etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf</code>


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DISPLAYMANAGER="lightdm"
DISPLAYMANAGER="lightdm"
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=== Greeters ===
LightDM will be pretty useless for graphical logins with out the addition of a greeter for it.
For GTK fans:
{{console|body=###i## emerge x11-misc/lightdm-gtk-greeter}}
for KDE fans:
{{console|body=###i## emerge x11-misc/lightdm-kde}}


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Lightdm is a light display manager. It's an excellent alternative to gdm, & kdm. Lightdm is used in conjunction with x11-apps/xdm.

install

root # emerge lightdm

configuration

Lightdm is configured with /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf, and /etc/conf.d/xdm. By default, lightdm ships with lightdm-gtk-greeter which is controlled by /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf

   /etc/conf.d/xdm - xdm configuration to use lightdm
DISPLAYMANAGER="lightdm"

Greeters

LightDM will be pretty useless for graphical logins with out the addition of a greeter for it.

For GTK fans:

root # emerge x11-misc/lightdm-gtk-greeter

for KDE fans:

root # emerge x11-misc/lightdm-kde