Display manager

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Is there any display manager that works under FreeBSD? I have MATE 1.8 installed and working , but I don't know what to do with the display manager.

What we have:
  1. GDM needs a lot of GNOME2 dependencies;
  2. KDM can't be installed separately, only with KDE4;
  3. LXDM just does not exist (LXDE exists);
  4. SLIM is buggy crap (ignores any /etc/profile, ~/.profile files, ignores any default environment variables);
  5. XDM didn't work.

Now I am simply using login with TTY and typing startx. It works well, but... year 2014 outside!

Can you help me please?

Regards, xdevelnet.
 
I personally found that x11/slim was the quickest to set up (particularly using themes), but I couldn't find a way to configure it to recognise my keyboard layout properly and I wanted to be able to power off laptops from the login screen without needing the root password. I switched to x11/xdm, which I prefer overall. It is very configurable, though to do so takes some time. Whilst it is possible to improve its looks, I don't know that I would describe it as beautiful. I found this webpage on XDM configuration that I found useful to get started. Rather than using XDM's default location for configuration files, I changed it to the /usr/local/etc/xdm directory and modified copies of the files from /usr/local/share/examples/xdm. So it would read my configuration files, I modified the line in /etc/ttys:
Code: 
ttyv8	"/usr/local/bin/xdm -config /usr/local/etc/xdm/xdm-config -nodaemon"	xterm	on secure
 
asteriskRoss said:
I couldn't find a way to configure it to recognise my keyboard layout properly
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How about using xorg.conf? Or DE utilities?

Tnx Thanks for the useful links, I will try to configure XDM.
 
I'm the one user on my machine but I don't use any *dm. I think this is an unnecessary layer. What I'm doing? I have an
Code: 
autologin:\
    :al=MYUSER:tc=Pc:
entry in /etc/gettytab and
Code: 
ttyv0	"/usr/libexec/getty autologin"		xterm	on  secure
in /etc/ttys. So MYUSER will autologin. I have these line in ~/.login (I'm using tcsh() so the syntax differs on sh() or shells/bash):
Code: 
if ($tty == "ttyv0") then
    echo Starting Xorg...
    startx
    echo "Halt (h) Reboot (r) Nothing (n) ?"
    set answer = $<
    if ($answer == "h") then
        /sbin/shutdown -p now
    else if ($answer == "r") then
            /sbin/shutdown -r now
    endif
endif

So my FreeBSD boots up, autologin MYUSER, and startx. If startx closes (I exit from the window manager) display a message ("Halt (h) Reboot (r) Nothing (n)"), read answer from the user and if answer is "h" the machine is halted, and if it's "r", the machine is rebooted. If it's something else, nothing (I'll have a prompt). MYUSER is a member of operator (as written here).
 
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