On Sat, 21 Jul 2001 17:18, Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 5:16 AM
> To: Jose M. Sanchez; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] login Manager
>
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 18:31, Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
> > Each display manager (it's not really a "login" manager) has it's own
> > set of configuration files or shares some of the files from others.
> >
> > XDM, the great granddaddy of them all, is the basis for the others.
>
> IIRC, GDM is not based on XDM at all -- it is a complete rewrite. That
> is
> probably a reason why it is more configurable than KDM.
>
> ---
>
> Eh no. It borrows code and configuration files from XDM.
>
> ---
You're right. I should've done my homework first :-)
I vaguely recalled from a while back (that's why I said "IIRC") that one of
the display managers did not use XDM -- I assumed this was GDM (I already
knew that KDM is based on XDM). I did a bit of research and found the GDM web
page, which said that it is also based on KDM. So either there is a display
manager somewhere out there that is *not* based on XDM, or I am just
imagining things. I assume the latter :-)
> > Mandrake 8 does a pretty good job of supplying identical
> > configurations for all the provided and contributed managers...
> >
> > Thus you can easily switch between, KDM, XDM, & GDM.
> >
> > Look in /etc/X11 for their configuration files.
> >
> > -JMS
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
"There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
-- Jeremy S. Anderson
