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.) > > > -- <http://www.sun.com/solaris> * Gary Combs * Technical Marketing *Sun Microsystems, Inc.* 3295 NW 211th Terrace Hillsboro, OR 97124 US Phone x32604/+1 503 715 3517 Cell 1-503-887-7519 Fax 503-715-3517 Email Gary.Combs at Sun.COM "The box said 'Windows 2000 Server or better', so I installed Solaris" <http://www.sun.com/solaris> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20071126/58e8d07d/attachment.html>
