Roman Morokutti wrote: > Kyle McDonald wrote: >> When you say CDE do you mean only dtlogin? > Yes I mean a display manager. With CDE I perhaps stripped cde-login a > bit too much. >> Or when you say gdm do you mean all of GNOME? > As above. I mean the GNOME display manager. >> 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. > What the smooth powermanagement causes in detail I cannot say. But > since I switched to gdm the system runs very calm. > That's interesting. The only real thing I can think of that DtLogin would start that gdm might skip would be the tooltalk server, and possibly a Motif key binding daemon.
And actually, the problems you describe about not being able to logout from CDE can be caused from the tooltalk server not running... at least with the CDE Desktop. >> 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. > How would you do that. Over some init command? I can remember that on > Nexenta I could not get into console mode > because gdm always brought up the login screen. If this is still so, > that would be a pitty. DtLogin allows it by offering a menu choice for 'commandline login,' which makes it kill the xserver and watch for logins on the console. If enough time goes by with no logins it will restart X. Since gdm comes from linux where there are VC's I don't see them adding this. Plus VC's can give you a text login even after you login, which DtLogin can't do. >> Also I haven't checked gdm in a while, but does it allow you to >> configure and choose between multiple desktops before logging in? > It was not necessary yet, so I do not know wether it is possible or not. > When I ran a large computer lab, that was key. Back then there was OpenWindows Still, and CDE, and then GNOME was new, plus Many of my users liked the standard MIT-X11 XDM behavior with .xinitrc which I was able to add to DtLogin. I still add this X11 login to all the machines I put Solaris on. gdm seems to assume your users will only ever want to run GNOME. As far as I know on linux box you need to have root privledges and switch the whole system to kdm just to be able to log into KDE. -Kyle _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
