kdm is a login manager.
I'm not sure what you think a login manager is, though.
kdm is not needed to manage logins, but that's the only thing it does.
It provides a graphical front-end that allows people to log in with
graphics on their screen rather than logging in in text mode.
It is the KDE folk's version of xdm. This has nothing to do with gpm,
but I believe that gdm is the corresponding gnome login manager.
Mike Corbeil wrote:
I'm not sure that kdm is a login manager. I've seen it compared
to gpm, but gpm
is not a login manager either, because neither needs to run to
login, as far as
I'm aware. The only thing I recall about gpm is that it allows
the use of the
mouse in non X login, but doesn't prevent a person from logging in
if neither is
present. kdm is what was said to be used if using kde, which is a
window manager
and desktop.
mike
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