[desktop-discuss] [kde-discuss] Display Managers

[Alan Coopersmith]

John Sonnenschein wrote:
> All those reasons seem to me to be reasons to use something other than
> xdm. I don't see that they're particularly good reasons to use GDM in
> particular, however.

gdm just happens to be the one we have that fits the bill, since it comes
with GNOME.   Brian Cameron has had to do a lot of work on it to bring gdm
up to the point where it can become the default display manager.

> I'm still hoping to find an option that isn't so dependency laden &
> heavy. Which is why it's a shame dtlogin's being removed.

But dtlogin is encumbered, so could only be in Solaris itself, and every
other OpenSolaris distro would have to find something else anyway.

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