Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Re: x11/slim is unmaintained and broken, drop it?

On 21/11/30 12:48PM, Joerg Jung wrote:
>
> > On 30. Nov 2021, at 09:27, Landry Breuil <landry@openbsd.org> wrote:
> > Le Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 05:32:42PM +0100, Joerg Jung a écrit :
> >>
> >>> On 29. Nov 2021, at 09:39, Landry Breuil <landry@openbsd.org> wrote:
> >>> Le Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 07:02:20AM +0000, Yifei Zhan a écrit :
> >>>> x11/slim is a login session manager that once installed and enabled,
> >>>> takes over xenodm and handles user login. It has been unmaintained since
> >>>> 2013 and it no longer works as of now (it doesn't care about .xsession
> >>>> and I got redirected to the login screen once the correct password is
> >>>> entered.)
> >>>
> >>> cf https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=161376817621120&w=2 which got
> >>> zero testing.
> >>>
> >>> guess i'll remove it unless someone speaks up.
> >>
> >> I use it (on 6.9) and it always just worked for me.
> >> But I'm fine with having it removed due to dead upstream.
> >
> > Your call, you can also test the update i posted, and become maintainer
> > :)
>
> nah... It's dead Jim.
> ok jung@ for removal.
>


Here is a follow up diff to make lxqt-session's README no longer mention it:

Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/ports/x11/lxqt/session/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 Makefile
--- Makefile 22 Nov 2021 05:45:44 -0000 1.6
+++ Makefile 1 Dec 2021 03:04:42 -0000
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@

NAME = lxqt-session

+REVISION = 0
+
WANTLIB += ${COMPILER_LIBCXX} ICE KF5WindowSystem Qt5Core Qt5DBus
WANTLIB += Qt5Gui Qt5Svg Qt5Widgets Qt5X11Extras Qt5Xdg Qt5XdgIconLoader
WANTLIB += Qt5Xml SM X11 Xext c gio-2.0 glib-2.0 gobject-2.0 lxqt
Index: pkg/README
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/ports/x11/lxqt/session/pkg/README,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
diff -u -r1.1.1.1 README
--- pkg/README 14 Sep 2018 15:17:27 -0000 1.1.1.1
+++ pkg/README 1 Dec 2021 03:04:42 -0000
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
=======
LXQt desktop environment is launched through the 'startlxqt' script.
Simply add '${LOCALBASE}/bin/startlxqt' to your .xinitrc/.xsession
-script if you use startx, xenodm or slim.
+script if you use startx or xenodm.
An lxqt.desktop file is provided for use by kdm.

e.g. console login: ~/.xinitrc

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