Folks using LTSP 4.2 might be interested in this...

I recently started using Fluxbox as my window manager on an old laptop, and 
that led me down the path of reducing Gnome dependencies.  As a consequence, I 
found a nice
lightweight replacement for GDM.  It's called WDM, or Wings Display Manager.  
It definitely loads faster than GDM on my oldish laptop (1.6 GHz P4).

Some other lightweight display managers that I found, but didn't test out much:

XDM
SLiM
Entrance

Another interesting option was qingy.  It's a graphical replacement for getty.  
It operates outside of the X environment, using the framebuffer.  I'm not sure 
how useful it would be to this crowd, but I thought it was interesting 
nonetheless.

By the way, I chose WDM over the others for two reasons:  it worked out of the 
box on my Debian Squeeze system, and it allowed for changing your session at 
the login screen
(XDM, for instance, doesn't seem to allow this).

-Rob

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