Let me see if I can get this right... Daemons are processes that run continuously and do the computers dirtywork for it. The X daemon is the program that talks to the display (i.e. monitor/keyboard/mouse) for you - if you start your X with the startx command, one of the things startx does is start the daemon. But all the daemon does is the low-level stuff - displaying images, getting user inputs. The window manager takes that and allows you to put icons on your screen, open and close windows, and run programs by clicking on them, etc....and the window managers, because they communicate with you using graphical images, mouse clicks, etc... rely on the X daemon to be running. It is perfectly acceptable to not run a window manager. Just start the X daemon (xdm I think, on my system, there are others...). Do some reading on X before you try this - there are some things X needs to have set up for it to run properly - some config files. This way - instead of clicking on the Netscape icon on your screen, you type some magic from the control line telling the computer to run that program, speak X and use a certain device. Then the program pops up on your screen. I did this once to allow me to run JUST netscape from a log-in. The user logs in as "guest" and is instantly running Netscape with no access to other programs. Details on doing this are in the Public-Web-Browser mini howto. Bob To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
