theYinYeti Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 Hi! It’s been a long time… I’m glad to see that ianw1974, spinynorman, AussieJohn, arctic, paul, tyme, etc. are still around :-) I’ve just finished migrating my sister-in-law’s PC from Mageia 2 to Mageia 4(.1 I guess…), and I wanted to revert her full-gnome3 UI to something lighter on resources because she has a low-spec Zotac miniPC, and all was very slow, with occasional freezes. I decided to switch her to Mate, or Xfce if there is a problem with the former. For the DM, I installed lightdm-gtk-greeter (which pulled lightdm itself). Considering Mageia’s roots in the automagic Mandrake/iva, I expected lightdm to just work after I switched to it from GDM in the Control Center. But it did not, and I’m hard-pressed to find out exactly why :-/ So, does anyone know what I could have overlooked, having been an Arch user for the last 7 years or so? Or, knowing Mageia better than I do, would you recommend another lightweight DM? Note that my sister-in-law is a very basic user, who would not even know how to launch a program that she has never used before. So the DM must be user-friendly and stable, not experimental, and once configured, it should keep working after upgrades (so again, not beta software). Thanks! [offtopic]How has it been here these last few years?[/offtopic] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted January 8, 2015 Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 Lightdm is good, but does require a bit of configuration. I found this out not so long ago on my Gentoo installation, when I was trying to sort out something because of issues trying to emerge gdm, and didn't want Gnome3. Here's a good link with some info: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Display_Managers note there says about lightdm being usable in Mageia 3 and higher. Maybe it will help. I've tried lightdm and lxdm because I was attempting to build a system with LXDE but also have at least a pretty display manager. If I remember to get on my Gentoo system later tonight, I'll take a look at my config and see what special stuff there I configured. Was a while ago, so can't remember exactly what I did with it, or even what DM I'm using now. Incidently, lightdm is in use with the latest Ubuntu's, and works straight out of the box - as does pretty much all stuff with Ubuntu. Just in case you want an alternative to check out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted January 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 Hey Ian! Thanks for replying ;-) For the record, the problem was that lightdm did not have permission to write to /var/log/lightdm, which was owned by root. This command solved the issue: chown lightdm /var/log/lightdm 'later! Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted January 9, 2015 Report Share Posted January 9, 2015 Glad you got it working :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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