On Jan 18, 2006, at 1:05 PM, AgentM wrote: > I use gdm as the login manager- it has a lot of (mostly unused) > dependencies, but a really useful bunch of features (such as auto- > login). If you're trying to stay light on the hd space, xdm should be > good enough.
HDD space isn't so much of a concern as RAM. I assume gdm runs only during login. As soon as one logs in, it disappears, freeing up its RAM. Is that a safe assumption? If so, then gdm would be nice. > As for configuration, look at various xfce4 themes as well as > ~.config/xfce4/xinitrc > > Do you need to allow the users to shutdown? There's a FAQ answer > here: (search for "xfsm-shutdown-helper") > http://www.xfce.org/index.php?page=documentation&lang=en Yes. These machines will be mostly single user systems. So, shutdown and auto-login is a nice "feature" > Light-weight basic applications for xfce4: > http://www.foo-projects.org/~benny/xfce/apps.html Nice. One thing I do need is a way to easily adjust the font size in an xterm. The default font with xterm is microscopic, at least for my eyes. > Also, xfce4 themes: > http://themes.freshmeat.net/browse/963/ I seem to remember seeing a very WindowsXP-like theme for xfce, but didn't see it there nor did a quick google turn it up. > Is there something in particular that you would like to change? Install FireFox and then add it to the menu and panel. Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
