Console Display Manager

[ghost1227]

Fed up with the overhead of gdm and kdm, and the instability of qingy and slim, I sat down recently and began working on a project dubbed CDM - the Console Display Manager. CDM is a (relatively) full-featured display manager written in pure bash. But how many features can you put in a bash display manager? Surprisingly, quite a few!

CDM Supports:
*Multiple X sessions (user logins are all handled through tty1)
*Any DE/WM
*Configurable console logins
*Users restricted to a single environment bypass the menu on login
*Root is automatically dropped to console
*Theming
*All settings are configurable on a per-user basis

Granted CDM is far from perfect, but it's come a long way already and is still being improved as quickly as I can find and repair bugs and add features. CDM is available at github.com/ghost1227/cdm and has a bugtracker at bugs.archuser.com/index.php?project=2&do=index&switch=1. If you're looking for a minimalistic display manager, please try it out and tell me what you think!

[reed9]

I was using this for a bit with Arch Linux. Worked well enough for me, though I ended up going back to just good old startx.

[ghost1227]

Just released a major update to CDM! Massive amount of code cleanup and several new features.