John Sonnenschein wrote:
> All those reasons seem to me to be reasons to use something other than
> xdm. I don't see that they're particularly good reasons to use GDM in
> particular, however.
gdm just happens to be the one we have that fits the bill, since it comes
with GNOME. Brian Cameron has had to do a lot of work on it to bring gdm
up to the point where it can become the default display manager.
> I'm still hoping to find an option that isn't so dependency laden &
> heavy. Which is why it's a shame dtlogin's being removed.
But dtlogin is encumbered, so could only be in Solaris itself, and every
other OpenSolaris distro would have to find something else anyway.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
