From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 4 08:40:07 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 005BB106566B for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2012 08:40:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ukaszg@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ob0-f182.google.com (mail-ob0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6542B8FC14 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2012 08:40:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obbun3 with SMTP id un3so14371055obb.13 for ; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 01:40:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=W3TZua6t/7M6x2Dr+LcYDwrIUEy4CMrOJK5WHs0tgMY=; b=M+srwfGY/x09l0ThAiPyTFS1O24UgusDd1dnJuGAJvV+Vnuqk/7U/zuV96xi3BPw2+ YXvJ6iGnJpacssVzhBXeayGHdTf1wFrW6KXhuUrp91OqcZ/AGSGd+VCit1Nyrnd6kbrR qRzUuyuMgCNi9S9FtqKGqiv1DEOBVBUnNgtx2cZvpkkA7zvp+FTJtXhKWQ2LxnpB16sH tfFmedOJ/L8MeGuT45yEpJGm08N8KVG/Xdnzzt7X4ats6nlSwGzDnsiICD2Bl0ccRVHN Wp50GND+dBotkX34Womc4SjpfnAgjMcnMFeyFcYgL7sr0fjJ00CRnXwjCT+vU9oZh6aF /0Cg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.197.73 with SMTP id is9mr1216443obc.32.1341391205752; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 01:40:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.182.69 with HTTP; Wed, 4 Jul 2012 01:40:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120704083457.6158cff8.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20120625043302.198cf5c3@vixen42.vulpes.vvelox.net> <1341383241395-5724072.post@n5.nabble.com> <20120704083457.6158cff8.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 10:40:05 +0200 Message-ID: From: uki To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: Understanding XDM X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 08:40:07 -0000 2012/7/4 Polytropon : > On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 23:27:21 -0700 (PDT), sw2wolf wrote: >> I am using slim to login which can choose Window Manager by pressing F1 = key. >> Can XDM choose Window Manager when loginning ? > > No, xdm cannot do this. But as far as I remember, wdm can -- it has > some look & feel of the original CDE display manager and it designed > to work well with WindowMaker, but it's a very nice replacement for > xdm if you need that specific functionality. It's quite lightweight > (compared to gdm or kdm) and easily configurable. xdm is very simple, it just logs you in and runs a shell script. with default settings the shell script just executes your ~/.xinitrc here is an example how to add shutdown button to xdm http://neilt.org/computing/xdmshutdownbutton.php you can use it as an example to hack your own 'change wm' feature, or just use some xdm replacement that has that. Cheers, =C5=81ukasz Gruner