%% Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Some people really seem to dislike them and I can't see why. >> Useless eye candy? Wasteful of resources when unused? Potential >> security hole?
bb> I avoid them because of precisely the sort of problem our bb> interlocutor is having. There are many tasks I prefer to do in the bb> console, but I do as a rule live in X. So the compromise for me is bb> to go back and forth quickly and easily, which means deepsix-ing bb> xdm and its cousins. Hmm. I have no opinions on display managers, really; at work I don't use one but at home I use GDM, so my wife, who's a Windows person, can reboot or shut down the system without remember how to login as root (GDM has a reboot selection on the login screen). Anyway, going back and forth between X and the tty in Linux is best accomplished (IMO) with C-A-F1,2,3,4 etc., vs. C-A-F7, so the use or non-use of a display manager shouldn't have anything to do with this... ? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Network Management Development "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them.