Re: what exactly is xdm and xfs??

2001-01-16 Thread David Z. Maze
Graham Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GH> xdm is the X desktop manager. It is used if you want to login from X GH> directly on start-up. This is not needed; you can start the machine, log in GH> to a console, then run startx to get X going. GH> GH> xfs is the X Font Server; it is a way of provid

Re: what exactly is xdm and xfs??

2001-01-16 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # about 2 weeks ago, I installed debian 2.2r2. # During the package install phase, I checked off # the X packages (simple menu). Along with all the # X packages, xdm and xfs were also installed. # Naturally I assumed that xdm and xfs were # necessary parts of X.

RE: what exactly is xdm and xfs??

2001-01-16 Thread Graham Hill
xdm is the X desktop manager. It is used if you want to login from X directly on start-up. This is not needed; you can start the machine, log in to a console, then run startx to get X going. xfs is the X Font Server; it is a way of providing fonts to X applications. You can however have X configur