Jakub Narojczyk wrote:

> Hi gdm and kdm are both "resource consumeing" so i recomend using xdm or
> just startx command on an old machine. Especially when You're short on
> RAM.

Yes they are. gdm a lot more so than kdm (I chucked gdm because I
thought it was even too slow on my 3GHz Athlon).

> After running the window manager the ?dm's don't do nothing more
> than stay in the memory till You finish Your xsession.

Actually they will be swapped out, so after the actual X session starts,
 they won't consume any valuable RAM.

Anyway, I agree with your advice: Use xdm, or no desktop manager at all.

--Daniel


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