Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 18:10:39 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> To: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org> Cc: Parker Brown <phbrown@charter.net>, BSDQuestions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Display Managers and X11 4 (ala FreeBSD 4.6) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208131807001.12470-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <20020813175506.N32167-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>
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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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