[orca-list] the quest for a desktop/display manager combo i like

[deedra waters <deedra the-brannons com>]

So after all of my experimenting i ended up on  mate  using autox to log 
in and then having mate-screensaver immediately lock the desktop as soon 
as it's able to. This seems to be the best bet so far far and it's 
similar to the stumpwm setup i had in terms of logging in and locking 
the screen  i like mate probably would have used it sooner if i'd have 
realized just what it was from the beginning but i'd been out of the 
loop in the linux community for a while now so didn't follow the 
progress of what was gnome2 becoming mate.


i looked at lightdm repeatedly in quest so to speak but i didn't realize 
that the freezing thing was not present in an older version and i did 
not want to run a patched or older version of the gtk-greeter because i 
wanted to ensure that updating this box was going to be as painless for  
both of us here as possible. I looked at slim next i liked this but 
someone in the mate irc channel told me that slim was no longer 
developed so i went back to my  autox setup but was able to find info 
burried on google about someone who wanted to try and do the same 
autologin/autolock thing i had decided i was going to do with mate.


Needless to say things work more or less now and i'm happy about that. 
Thank you all for your help. Now to work on the little things.:)