Dear Maintainer,

After updating to Trixie, SLiM launch a untitled window at openbox session
startup. This is a full-screen sized, inactive black window.
When autologin=no in slim.conf (or commented), this window is not present.

Do you have an idea of the origin of the issue ?
Could you please provide a workaround that will allow autologin without this ?
Don't hesitate to ask me for tests.

Thanks for maintaining SLiM in Debian.

Baptiste

I believe we have a viable fix in devuan.

https://git.devuan.org/devuan/slim/src/branch/suites/unstable/debian/patches/Patch-to-fix-auto_login-regression-introduced-in-1.4.patch


Comments/adjustments are welcome.



diff --git a/app.cpp b/app.cpp
index d378793..6b0d8de 100644
--- a/app.cpp
+++ b/app.cpp
@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ void App::Run()
 			try {
 				pam.check_acct();
 #endif
-			Login();
+			Login(true);
 #ifdef USE_PAM
 			}
 			catch(PAM::Auth_Exception& e){
@@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ int App::GetServerPID()
 }

Hi all,

Dixit tempforever, le 24/11/2025 :
slim_1.4.1-2 (trixie) and slim_1.4.4-3 (forky & sid).
Installing the package (whatever version) on Trixie works as expected :
no more black window at session startup ! Thanks

Could you please add it to d/patches ?

Baptiste

Hi,

i applied that (devuan's) patch and build deb package (including source
package). I am using it more than month and all works as expected.

If anyone is willing to prepare NMU, be free to use it:

https://debs.slavino.sk/pool/main/s/slim/

It will remain there, until package will be fixed...

regards

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
slim, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1117831@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> (supplier of updated slim package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2026 10:24:10 +0200
Source: slim
Architecture: source
Version: 1.4.1-5
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
Changed-By: Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>
Closes: 1117831
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