On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 12:17:16PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > Stephen Dennison wrote: > >Out of curiosity has anyone ever thought about using fvwm in place of > >a display manager? Have any developers thought about creating an fvwm > >config that would act as a display manager, or implementing a display > >manager that is fvwm driven? > > > >Basically I just want a display manager that will allow either user > >selection from a menu or a user name and password entry, but I dont' > >want to have to rely on gnome or kde under-pinings. I was thinking > >that I could probably just start up a stripped down window session > >with fvwm and remove all of the default key-bindings. (Or maybe start > >up a non-privelaged user account that doesn't have a shell entry and > >have it present the menu...) I could then decorate it with all the > >eye candy and functionality that gdm provides, but I'm not sure how to > >go about replacing the currently running fvwm session with an fvwm > >session running as a different user. > > > >So I guess in all of my rambling my question isn't really fvwm > >specific, but it does relate to fvwm. How do I create a new fvwm > >session from a currently running fvwm session with different user > >privelages? > > ? > > if you don't want to use kdm or gdm you can use xdm, that's plain X > (default is kinda ugly but you can configure the look). >
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