Nathanael D. Noblet (nathan...@gnat.ca) said: > I'm also curious why gdm is still running once I've logged in.
When you start a display manager, you start an X server; the display manager then draws on this. Then, when you log in, you have to stat an user session, as the authenticated user (which has a connection to the X server, so it can know when it goes away.) You also have to tell the init daemon which process it's supposed to be tracking, so it can respawn it when it exits. Having that process be the gdm daemon (which forks and execs both the X server and the user session) is arguably a lot simpler than trying to architect it such that the daemon goes away entirely and init then ends up tracking either the X serve or the user session. Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
