Re: xdm replacement?

1998-10-13 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Noah L. Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, kdm actually does offer a nice piece of functionality that xdm doesn't. It allows you to choose an X session at login (kde, window maker, afterstep, etc), by providing a combo box that lets you choose the parameter that gets passed to the

xdm replacement?

1998-10-08 Thread Person, Rod
As a newbie, I guess I have reached the level of comfort with Debian that now I want better, fast etc... Anyway, is there a replacement for xdm. I know about kdm but I want to use windowmaker so I don't want to take up all the space with kdebase and libs and support... Can I use kdm

Re: xdm replacement?

1998-10-08 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
As a newbie, I guess I have reached the level of comfort with Debian that now I want better, fast etc... Anyway, is there a replacement for xdm. I know about kdm but I want to use windowmaker so I don't want to take up all the space with kdebase and libs and support... Can I use

Re: xdm replacement?

1998-10-08 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 09:08:49AM -0400, Person, Rod wrote: As a newbie, I guess I have reached the level of comfort with Debian that now I want better, fast etc... Anyway, is there a replacement for xdm. I know about kdm but I want to use windowmaker so I don't want to take up all the

Re: xdm replacement?

1998-10-08 Thread Andy Spiegl
According to Person, Rod [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As a newbie, I guess I have reached the level of comfort with Debian that now I want better, fast etc... Anyway, is there a replacement for xdm. I know about kdm but I want to use windowmaker so I don't want to take up all the space with kdebase

Re: xdm replacement?

1998-10-08 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: Excuse my ignorance, but isn't xdm that program you need during the twenty seconds it takes to log in? What does kdm do that would make a person so much happier during that event? Well, kdm actually does

Re: xdm replacement?

1998-10-08 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Person, Rod wrote: Anyway, is there a replacement for xdm. I know about kdm but I want to use windowmaker so I don't want to take up all the space with kdebase and libs and support... Aside from kdm, I don't know of a real replacement

Re: xdm replacement?

1998-10-08 Thread Rene Hojbjerg Larsen
should take a look at wdm, which is an xdm replacement with a NeXT-alike look and feel. This should go perfectly with Window Maker. I haven't tried it out myself yet, though. You can find the Debian package in slink (and perhaps in hamm?). -- /'`\ zzzZ | My PGP Public Key is available

Re: xdm replacement?

1998-10-08 Thread joseph evan porter
a look at wdm, which is an xdm replacement with a NeXT-alike look and feel. This should go perfectly with Window Maker. I haven't tried it out myself yet, though. You can find the Debian package in slink (and perhaps in hamm?). I use wdm, and it's very nice. Once you've installed the package

Re: xdm replacement?

1998-10-08 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
joseph evan porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The easiest way to restart it from there is to (heavens, no!) reboot. I don't keep my machine on all the time, so this is easiest for me. Others might have a safer solution. Try '/etc/init.d/wdm start' (if xdm is running, you should do

Re: xdm replacement?

1998-10-08 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
that or is there something else I can use instead of xdm? Perhaps you should take a look at wdm, which is an xdm replacement with a NeXT-alike look and feel. This should go perfectly with Window Maker. I haven't tried it out myself yet, though. You can find the Debian package in slink (and perhaps