From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 13 14:56:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D64137B400 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 14:56:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpha.yumyumyum.org (dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.171.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF5D543E81 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 14:56:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) Received: from alpha.yumyumyum.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by alpha.yumyumyum.org (8.12.5/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7DLu0jN033572; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 17:56:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by alpha.yumyumyum.org (8.12.5/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g7DLtxE5033569; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 17:56:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) X-Authentication-Warning: alpha.yumyumyum.org: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 17:55:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Culver To: Parker Brown Cc: BSDQuestions Subject: Re: Display Managers and X11 4 (ala FreeBSD 4.6) In-Reply-To: <3D597F9C.968B9C4C@charter.net> Message-ID: <20020813175506.N32167-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message