On Wednesday 19 February 2003 08:24 pm, Ulrich Plate wrote:
> Collins wrote:
> > A user on another group suggested wdm as a better version of xdm.  It
> > has session choices and reboot/shutdown built into the gui login menu.
>
> And it includes PAM, for example, meaning you can authorize access with
> a smartcard if you feel so inclined. :) I can't help all that much with
> your problem, but I wanted to point out that there's an ebuild now that
> apparently "just works", too. It's been admitted to Portage, but as long
> as that's frozen it's not being handed down, so you'd have to get it
> from bugs.gentoo.org, right here:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15660
>
> Cheers
> Ulrich Plate

OK, I tried it, and it does indeed "just work," except that I had to tinker 
with the ebuild.  The line truetype? (x11-libs/xft) would not compute, so I 
cahnged it to truetype ? =x11-libs/xft-2.0.1 just to get the ebuild to 
complete.

Now most everything is goodness.

Thanks again.
-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
Athlon-XP gentoo 1.4_rc2 kde 3.1

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