ok, henry and bill -- thanks! :) on one hand, it sucks that there's no "admin tool". on the other hand, i think i like this way better because it's hard remembering the name of all these admin tools that have popped up over the years in various distros. i like having to remember just one thing. .xinitrc. :)
i'll check out kdm. i assume it's for kde only and gdm is for gnome only and xdm is for anything? can you tell i don't use this stuff much? ;-) pete ps- xdm is sooo ugly that the doctor slapped ... ;) begin William Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 03:04:41PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > this really doesn't say anything. > > > > suppose user1 wants enlightenment with gnome, user2 wants enlightenment > > without gnome and user3 wants sawmill with gnome. > > > > what command do they run? > > One solution is to run KDM, which lets one choose their windowmanager/etc. > when they log in (and then proceeds to remember that and use it until > they change it later). > > Of course, if you don't want a *DM... > > > > or is the Debian Way to modify your ~/.xinitrc explicitly? > > Yes, you'd want to tweak these guys. And as for the best way about it, > I dunno. I stick with *DMs. (GDM on my Gnome box at work and on Melissa's > Gnome box at home, and KDM on my KDE box at home - BTW, KDM appears more > flexible (surprise, surprise)... XDM is butt-ugly... there are other > alternatives I've never used (see Freshmeat.net)) > > -bill! > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D PGP Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
