On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:34, Robert MacLean wrote: > Hi > > What are KDM, XDM, and GDM? I know they have something to do with > XWindows but that is about it? Also what are there differences? These are all display managers (hence the "DM" on the ends of the names). GDM is part of the GNOME Project, and KDM is part of KDE. XDM was the basis for the other two, and is rather plain (read: don't even bother trying it). Display Managers are the login menus you see when you boot into GNU/linux, assuming that you automatically start into X and you don't use autologin. They offer a choice of installed WMs/environments that you can log into. GDM and KDM are similar in functionality, and you can use either one. On some systems, KDM won't work, so GDM is a better choice. GDM also has better multilingual support. Mandrake uses KDM by default, but you can easily change to GDM. Instructions can be found at http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=964 -- 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
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