On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 18:31, Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
> Each display manager (it's not really a "login" manager) has it's own
> set of configuration files or shares some of the files from others.
>
> XDM, the great granddaddy of them all, is the basis for the others.
IIRC, GDM is not based on XDM at all -- it is a complete rewrite. That is
probably a reason why it is more configurable than KDM.
> Mandrake 8 does a pretty good job of supplying identical configurations
> for all the provided and contributed managers...
>
> Thus you can easily switch between, KDM, XDM, & GDM.
>
> Look in /etc/X11 for their configuration files.
>
> -JMS
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 10:10 PM
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> Subject: [newbie] login Manager
>
>
> I wish to under stand the login manager better. Can you use GDM to
> login to the system? It seems to be more configurable then the regular
> login manager.
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