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
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