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.
> 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. > 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. Roman _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
