Re: [arch-general] ML is being sent to Spam by Gmail

2016-06-12 Thread Uwe Koloska
Am 08.06.2016 um 06:26 schrieb Eli Schwartz via arch-general: > Recently a (disproportionately) large number of emails from the various > Arch Linux mailing lists are getting rerouted to my Spam folder in > Gmail. > > Is anyone else seeing this behavior change? I don't use a gmail address for arc

[arch-general] SLiM DM

2016-06-12 Thread runical
Dear all, I hope this is the right place to ask this. If not, please direct me to the correct place. I noticed that the SLiM display manager is in the repositories [0] while the wiki states that it has been deprecated [1]. Also, the project site is no longer available. Now, I understand that the

Re: [arch-general] SLiM DM

2016-06-12 Thread David C. Rankin
On 06/12/2016 01:56 PM, runi...@gmx.com wrote: > could someone give some reasons why > it is still in the repositories? > > With kind regards, > runical The short answer would be that it was the lightweight DM recommended to Archer's for years before development stopped. A tempered migration from

Re: [arch-general] SLiM DM

2016-06-12 Thread Levente Polyak
On 06/13/2016 12:59 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > [...] prevent whip-sawing all arch users who following the > recommendation in configuring their desktop from finding out their config is > broken on the first reboot after update following removal. > That's highly overdramatized, isn't it? Lets ke

Re: [arch-general] SLiM DM

2016-06-12 Thread Maarten de Vries via arch-general
On 13 June 2016 at 01:31, Levente Polyak wrote: > On 06/13/2016 12:59 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > > [...] prevent whip-sawing all arch users who following the > > recommendation in configuring their desktop from finding out their > config is > > broken on the first reboot after update following

Re: [arch-general] SLiM DM

2016-06-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 02:03:23 +0200, Maarten de Vries via arch-general wrote: >On 13 June 2016 at 01:31, Levente Polyak >wrote: > >> On 06/13/2016 12:59 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: >> > [...] prevent whip-sawing all arch users who following the >> > recommendation in configuring their desktop from

Re: [arch-general] SLiM DM

2016-06-12 Thread Ben Oliver via arch-general
I used Slim for years only to find out it was abandoned when I tried to use it in a fresh install (and therefore checked the wiki). Moved to LightDM and have not noticed any major difference, but I don't do anything fancy with my login screens...