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; 10 years ago (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.[1]

As of September, 2016, GhostBSD 10.3 replaced GDM with SLiM.[2]

## Contents

* 1 Features
* 2 Dependencies
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## 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

## References

1. ↑ "SLiM - ArchWiki". https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SLiM. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
2. ↑ "GhostBSD Enoch". 2016-09-01. http://www.ghostbsd.org/10.3_enoch. Retrieved 2016-09-03.

## External links

* SLiM at GitHub

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X Window System

Architecture|

* Core protocol
* X Window selection
* X Window authorization
* X11 color names
* X Input Method
* Wayland

Extensions|

* X Image Extension
* X keyboard extension
* RandR
* X Rendering Extension
* Shape extension
* Shared memory extension
* X Display Manager Control Protocol
* X video extension
* X-Video Motion Compensation
* AIGLX
* GLX
* Multi-Pointer X
* Display PostScript
* Composite
* Xinerama

Components
and notable
implementations|

| display servers|

* X.Org Server
* Cygwin/X
* X-Win32
* X386
* XFree86
* XDarwin
* Xming
* Xsgi
* Xsun
* Xgl
* Xephyr
* XQuartz
* XWayland

|

client libraries|

* Xlib
* XCB
* X Toolkit Intrinsics

display managers
session managers|

* GDM
* KDM
* SDDM
* XDM
* LightDM
* LXDM
* SLiM
* Entrance
* WDM

window managers
(comparison)|

| Compositing|

* Compiz
* KWin
* Metacity
* Mutter
* Xfwm
* Enlightenment

|

Stacking|

* AfterStep
* amiwm
* Blackbox
* cwm
* Fluxbox
* FVWM
* IceWM
* JWM
* Matchbox
* mwm
* Openbox
* Sawfish
* twm
* Window Maker

Tiling|

* awesome
* dwm
* i3
* Ion
* ratpoison
* wmii
* xmonad
* StumpWM
* larswm

Standards|

* ICCCM
* EWMH
* XDS
* freedesktop.org

Applications|

* xcalc
* xclock
* xedit
* xload
* xterm
* xeyes
* desktop environments

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