On Sat, 2001-09-29 at 14:40, dman wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 02:44:01AM +0530, Jeffrin Jose T. wrote:
> |
> | Is there any technical advantage in using a display manager
> | to start X window system apart from using "xinit" related
> | stuff from the command line ?
>
> You get a nice pretty screen to login to. You can use XDMCP. You can
> allow nice shutdowns without logging in first. You could have a list
> of users (with icons or mug shots) to point-n-click from rather than
> typing the name.
>
> I don't know if all of these are desirable, but those are some of the
> features provided by gdm.
>
> -D
>
>
Plus you can have several different xsession configurations available
a mouse click away.