Instalação do Slim no Slackware

Esta dica trata da instalação do Slim no Slackware.

Instalação.

# sbopkg -r
# sbopkg -i slim

Parecia que eu estava adivinhando, antes de instalar o MATE já vinha pensando em substituir o XDM por outro, como não encontrei o GDM, LightDM ou o LXDM fui de Slim. Daí comentei as entradas referentes aos outros Display Managers em /etc/rc.d/rc.4, deixando-o assim:

#!/bin/sh
#
# rc.4      This file is executed by init(8) when the system is being
#      initialized for run level 4 (XDM)
#
# Version:   @(#)/etc/rc.d/rc.4   2.01   07/01/06
#
# Author:   Fred N. van Kempen, <waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org>
# At least 47% rewritten by:  Patrick J. Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com>
# Modified (0.1%) by: Sergio Perticone <gallows@tiscali.it>
#
 
# Tell the viewers what's going to happen...
echo "Starting up X11 session manager..."
 
# Ok, slim should starts now:
if [ -x /usr/bin/slim ]; then
  exec /usr/bin/slim
fi
 
# Try to use GNOME's gdm session manager:
#if [ -x /usr/bin/gdm ]; then
#  exec /usr/bin/gdm -nodaemon
#fi
 
# Not there?  OK, try to use KDE's kdm session manager:
#if [ -x /opt/kde/bin/kdm ]; then
#  exec /opt/kde/bin/kdm -nodaemon
#fi
 
# If all you have is XDM, I guess it will have to do:
#if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm ]; then
#  exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon
#fi
 
# error
echo
echo "Hey, you don't have KDM, GDM, or XDM.  Can't use runlevel 4 without"
echo "one of those installed."
sleep 30
 
# All done.

Abaixo segue a minha configuração do arquivo /etc/slim.conf:

# Path, X server and arguments (if needed)
# Note: -xauth $authfile is automatically appended
default_path        /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
default_xserver     /usr/bin/X
#xserver_arguments   -dpi 75
 
# Commands for halt, login, etc.
halt_cmd            /sbin/shutdown -h now
reboot_cmd          /sbin/shutdown -r now
console_cmd         /usr/bin/xterm -C -fg white -bg black +sb -T "Console login" -e /bin/sh -c "/bin/cat /etc/issue; exec /bin/login"
#suspend_cmd        /usr/sbin/suspend
 
# Full path to the xauth binary
xauth_path         /usr/bin/xauth
 
# Xauth file for server
authfile           /var/run/slim.auth
 
# Activate numlock when slim starts. Valid values: on|off
numlock             on
 
# Hide the mouse cursor (note: does not work with some WMs).
# Valid values: true|false
# hidecursor          false
 
# This command is executed after a succesful login.
# you can place the %session and %theme variables
# to handle launching of specific commands in .xinitrc
# depending of chosen session and slim theme
#
# NOTE: if your system does not have bash you need
# to adjust the command according to your preferred shell,
# i.e. for freebsd use:
# login_cmd           exec /bin/sh - ~/.xinitrc %session
login_cmd           exec /bin/bash -login ~/.xinitrc %session
 
# Commands executed when starting and exiting a session.
# They can be used for registering a X11 session with
# sessreg. You can use the %user variable
#
# sessionstart_cmd   some command
# sessionstop_cmd   some command
 
# Start in daemon mode. Valid values: yes | no
# Note that this can be overriden by the command line
# options "-d" and "-nodaemon"
# daemon   yes
 
# Available sessions (first one is the default).
# The current chosen session name is replaced in the login_cmd
# above, so your login command can handle different sessions.
# see the xinitrc.sample file shipped with slim sources
sessions            xfce4,mate-session,openbox-session,fluxbox
 
# Executed when pressing F11 (requires imagemagick)
screenshot_cmd      import -window root /home/h4rd3r/slim-screenshot.png
 
# welcome message. Available variables: %host, %domain
welcome_msg         Welcome to %host
 
# Session message. Prepended to the session name when pressing F1
# session_msg         Session: 
 
# shutdown / reboot messages
shutdown_msg       The system is halting...
reboot_msg         The system is rebooting...
 
# default user, leave blank or remove this line
# for avoid pre-loading the username.
default_user        h4rd3r
 
# Focus the password field on start when default_user is set
# Set to "yes" to enable this feature
#focus_password      no
 
# Automatically login the default user (without entering
# the password. Set to "yes" to enable this feature
auto_login          yes
 
# current theme, use comma separated list to specify a set to 
# randomly choose from
current_theme       default
 
# Lock file
lockfile            /var/run/slim.lock
 
# Log file
logfile             /var/log/slim.log

Entrada para a sessão padrão no arquivo ~/.xinitrc:

#!/bin/sh
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch mate-session

Referência.

A referência é de um post que abri e solucionei no VOL, o qual passou despercebido por mim com o tempo:

[DICA] ambiente gráfico e o XDM [RESOLVIDO]