Yup, I've used that in the past as a window manager / desktop environment. But I was mostly trying to let everyone know about the lightweight display / login managers. That's what WDM is -- a replacement for GDM.
-Rob On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:30:58AM -0300, Alberto Castillo wrote: > You try LXDE? > > 2009/6/3 Rob Owens <[email protected]>: > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises > > looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest > > innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and > > enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. > > Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises > looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest > innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and > enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. > Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
