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

[Gary Combs]

One nice thing about xdm is the option for command line. It would make 
gdm perfect if it had this option.

Gary

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
>   
>> On 26/11/2007, John Sonnenschein <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> On 26-Nov-07, at 10:28 AM, Michael Schuster wrote:
>>>       
>>>> John Sonnenschein wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> So, GDM is rather large, and very tied to the GNOME desktop
>>>>> environment,
>>>>> dtlogin is being sadly jettisoned, and everyone seems opposed to
>>>>> xdm for
>>>>> some reason.
>>>>>           
>>>> can you (or someone else) elaborate on those reasons?
>>>>         
>>> the PSARC case to remove CDE was approved yesterday, so that's why
>>> dtlogin's going away. I'm not sure why xdm isn't being chosen as the
>>> default login and GDM is, but that's what I've been told by the people
>>> in charge of the case.
>>>       
>> Probably because GNOME is Sun's desktop choice so it makes logical sense?
>>     
>
> I missed part of this thread, so am responding to what I see here.   I don't
> know of any major opposition to xdm (and as the xdm maintainer for the X.Org
> community and the person who does the most work on Solaris's version of xdm,
> I'd hope they'd tell me), just a realization that gdm has more features and
> looks better.
>
> Specifically, gdm provides for accessibility helpers during login, has much more
> advanced theming support, is supported by Sun Ray's server for adding and
> removing Sun Ray displays on the fly, and probably has a few other features I've
> forgotten.
>
> None of this is impossible to do with xdm, if someone wanted to do the work to
> add all that, but why duplicate all that effort when gdm works?    Is there some
> reason a user would prefer xdm over gdm?    (The main reason I know of xdm still
> exists and is used is at sites who want the same login gui on all their
> different varieties of Unix machines, even the old ones without GNOME.)
>
>
>   

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