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From: Parker Brown <phbrown@charter.net>
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To: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: Display Managers and X11 4 (ala FreeBSD 4.6)
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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


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