On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Simone Piccardi <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't remember to have seen any machine using XDM for years, apart the
> ones we had to setup to teach this topic.
Not by default, I think.
I've used it in recent years for a very small, pro bono project for a
non-profit in Toronto.
Basically, it went xdm login -> x server only (no window manager) -> a
browser with -geometry options so that only the rendering part was
visible on the screen. no menus or anything.
If the person exited the browser, they were logged out. I was a quick
thing for them but I went with xdm for simplicity.
That said, for servers, I've only seen one case where X was actually
needed. Then, we also used xvfb so that we could avoid actually
needing any graphics hardware.
Personally, I'd like to see the X content diminished on the next
update, too. For anyone that participated in the LPIC-1 update survey
last year, we did get these results:
5. Should the level of X Display Managers coverage be adjusted in
LPIC-1 (currently: weight of 2/ie. 2 questions of 60 in the exam)?
Response Percent Count
down to 0 questions 11.1% 65
down to 1 question 26.1% 153
left unaltered at 2 questions 49.3% 289
raised to 3 questions 13.5% 79
answered question 586
skipped question 88
Thus, we left the objective unchanged.
> So I advocate to totally remove XDM.
That's where votes on the JTA count. I think I voted for 0 or 1 on the
last survey.
As others noted, though, it does take time to get to another update.
Both to keep from changing the study goals on people too often but
also to keep courseware and book authors from hunting me down.
Regards,
--
G. Matthew Rice <[email protected]> gpg id: EF9AAD20
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