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How to change display manager?

I installed Artix cinnamon with runit.
Now I switch to herbstluftwm and want to try out other display managers (slim and cdm...)
Arch wiki only give method using systemd.
I tried reading runit's documents and what's inside /etc/runit but can't figure things out.
I have no experience with runit.
What should I do to change my display manager?

Re: How to change display manager?

Reply #1 –
Afaik, we do not have a herbstluft runit service in our repos, or any support of a particular "fringe" DM.

As things are, you would need to read more runit documentation and create a runit service.

Re: How to change display manager?

Reply #2 –
Quote from: artoo – on
Afaik, we do not have a herbstluft runit service in our repos, or any support of a particular "fringe" DM.

As things are, you would need to read more runit documentation and create a runit service.

Thanks, I'll try it later.

Re: How to change display manager?

Reply #3 –
slim has a runit service in artix

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world/slim-runit 20200523-1 (runit-world)
    runit service scripts for slim

in order to run a runit service, install one with "-runit" as the one above.

to enable service, you must create a symlink from the runit directorty (/etc/runit/sv/<service name, aka slim>) to /etc/runit/runsvdir/default

to remove a service, just delete it from /etc/runit/runsvdir/default

https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Runit

Re: How to change display manager?

Reply #4 –
Quote from: negative – on
to enable service, you must create a symlink from the runit directorty (/etc/runit/sv/<service name, aka slim>) to /etc/runit/runsvdir/default
Thanks, was trying to figure that out, but that didn't work.
After loggin in, whichever DE I choose, it only shows slim's wallpapar and a few xterm instances.
If I close all the xterm windows, it goes back to slim log in screen.

Re: How to change display manager?

Reply #5 –
Quote from: JamesLowry1289 – on
Thanks, was trying to figure that out, but that didn't work.
After loggin in, whichever DE I choose, it only shows slim's wallpapar and a few xterm instances.
If I close all the xterm windows, it goes back to slim log in screen.

so you are able to see the slim login but it wont open your window manager after login?

you need to have "exec <your-window-manager>" in .xinitrc... slim does not "exec" your wm/de like lightdm/sddm/lxdm does.

thsi could be outdated by now, but still good for reference
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SLiM

Re: How to change display manager?

Reply #6 –
Quote from: negative – on
so you are able to see the slim login but it wont open your window manager after login?

you need to have "exec <your-window-manager>" in .xinitrc... slim does not "exec" your wm/de like lightdm/sddm/lxdm does.

thsi could be outdated by now, but still good for reference
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SLiM
Thanks, it works.