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Subject: Re: Display Managers and X11 4 (ala FreeBSD 4.6)
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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


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