Ok, ok, so my math was bad, but both WDM & XDM like to have it, that's at least 50% (gdm,kdm,wdm,xdm) :P
FWIW, xdm can be made to work by setting: 'DisplayManager*authorize: false' in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config for those of us who perfer a lightweight login process. :) -Brett On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 10:10:12PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 19:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 12:09:01PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > > > 3. XDM is broken - It seems to be some kind of xauth problem; strangely > > > > enough though, everything works fine if I use startx. I remember > > > > Branden claiming XDM was broken at one point, but I thought that had > > > > been fixed. > > > > > > Not related, the DRI repository is missing code for XdmAuth. gdm works. > > > > Umm, why? I'm not buying gdm with it's 40+ (!) package dependencies. > > Seems to me that XAuth support is fairly important, esp. since 99% of all X > > login widgets depend on it. > > Interesting, didn't know there are 99 display managers besides gdm, all of > them requiring it. :) > > > Any particular reason it was omitted? > > The DRI tree is cut down to the absolute minimum required for building > the server and GL library and drivers. Plus, a source file (Wraphelp.c) > needed for XdmAuth has dubious licensing and/or export conditions. > > I'll happily take a patch to add support for it, but I don't bother > about it enough to work on it myself. > > > -- > Earthling Michel D?nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer > XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
