updating Whonix from jessie to stretch / Migration to Gnome-Shell / port to GNOME-ish applications

IF using XFCE. If not lightdm… What is the most XFCEish login manager? It doesn’t have its own login manager? The login manager required for Whonix apparently does not really matter. Only feature so far that seems required:

  • a config file that can be dropped into a .d folder to enable auto login for user user (good usability feature for Whonix in VMs)

So perhaps xdm or lxdm? Don’t know yet if they support that feature. TODO: research