Roman Morokutti wrote: > The question if is a problem to use gdm, the opposite > is the truth. For the time being I sincerely can recommend > gdm - at least for my computer: HP Compaq nx6325. The > power management seems to much better than with CDE. > > You are comparing a desktop (CDE) with a display (or login) manager here.
When you say CDE do you mean only dtlogin? Or when you say gdm do you mean all of GNOME? I can see where running the full CDE desktop might have different power profile than running GNOME. But I can't see there being that much difference between running GNOME from gdm, and running GNOME from dtlogin. Is there? What you're running once you're logged in is still GNOME, and there shouldn't be much leftover from the display manager using the processor. I believe further changes are coming for gdm, but as far as I know it doesn't have several features that I like on dtlogin. The first is the ability to drop back to a text based login. Until Solaris gets virtual consoles like Linux, that is a key feature. Also I haven't checked gdm in a while, but does it allow you to configure and choose between multiple desktops before logging in? -Kyle > I run the computer now for nearly 6 hours and have had > no panic fan yet whereas with CDE the computer would > have ventilated from nearly idle to maximum speed up > and down. With gdm the fans run smoothly but never > panically yet. > > I have to further commit that I did not stressed the > CPU very much nor burned something. It runs just beside > me, so that I can occasionally issue some commands over > putty. But the above said is true even in such state. > > Roman > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
