On 17 February 2012 14:32, Oliver Burger <[email protected]> wrote: >> It could be due to the fact that xdm, who is also automatically installed, >> does not possess the property "dm" > > Well I don't think because kdm gets installed also, when gdm is installed, > which does provide dm. > >> See bug 4532. > The question, why xdm does not provide dm I can't answer. Was there a > technical reason or was it only forgotten?
Because it was not as featured as gdm & kdm. Also I think there were issues with xguest. Was decided by fcrozat which is long gone...
