Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 09:42:04 -0700 From: Parker Brown <phbrown@charter.net> To: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> Cc: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org>, BSDQuestions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Display Managers and X11 4 (ala FreeBSD 4.6) Message-ID: <3D5BD9DC.29F1672@charter.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208131807001.12470-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
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Gosh, I'm *speechless*! Now, couldn't you just read it for me? Thanks, John. Pb John Bleichert wrote: > On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Kenneth Culver wrote: > > Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 17:55:59 -0400 (EDT) > > From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org> > > To: Parker Brown <phbrown@charter.net> > > Cc: BSDQuestions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > > Subject: Re: Display Managers and X11 4 (ala FreeBSD 4.6) > > > > > gdm (Gnome) is not so bad only in that it returns statements that imply > > > that I must find a list somewhere to edit by some sort of rules. > > > > > > I guess I don't understand *dm, which I *think* is somehow new with X11 > > > 4. > > > > > > Got any hints? I really want to try both KDE (which is working, but > > > I've got to figure out how to modify it to my tastes) and gnome. > > > > > the display managers have been around for a LOOONG time. anyway, there is > > documentation for all of the display managers sitting around on the web, > > just search for it. It's not really hard to set these things up. > > > > Ken > > > > > > The inner workings of the login managers (and X in general) is pretty > arcane in any event ;-) However, the handbook has a pretty good section on > them: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html > > The following pages describe kdm and gdm. > > HTH - JB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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