Re: Is the display manager only a login screen?

2011-05-27 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Patrick, for your clarification. If a display manager provides only a login screen, then what is the point of discussing whether a display manager is lightweight or not, as the ongoing discussion on the this list

Re: Is the display manager only a login screen?

2011-05-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 13:12 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All, Is the display manager only a login screen? Or is it also the backbone of the desktop manager? Could you please elaborate a bit on this? I have searched on Google for it, and got the impression that a display manager

Re: Is the display manager only a login screen?

2011-05-26 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: Is the display manager only a login screen? Or is it also the backbone of the desktop manager? Could you please elaborate a bit on this? I have searched on Google for it, and got the impression that a display

Re: Is the display manager only a login screen?

2011-05-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/26/2011 07:12 PM, Paul Smith wrote: Thanks, Patrick, for your clarification. If a display manager provides only a login screen, then what is the point of discussing whether a display manager is lightweight or not, as the ongoing discussion on the this list? You might want to read http