From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Can't log in: blank login screen after reconfigure Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2018 20:33:06 +0200 Message-ID: <87zhv7w3od.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87ftx0qv8w.fsf@gmail.com> <20181021180113.7254f981@alma-ubu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34917) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gEM4N-0001d1-20 for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2018 18:19:35 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gEM4J-00024z-R9 for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2018 18:19:35 -0400 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21123) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gEM4I-0001ra-I5 for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2018 18:19:31 -0400 In-reply-to: <20181021180113.7254f981@alma-ubu> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: =?utf-8?Q?Bj=C3=B6rn_H=C3=B6fling?= Cc: help-guix@gnu.org Bj=C3=B6rn H=C3=B6fling writes: > to be honest, I have no idea what SlimD and SDDM is. SLiM and SDDM are both display managers. They are started after booting into a graphical user interface. They facilitate user authentication and hand over the user=E2=80=99s session to be handled by other programs. -- Ricardo