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Date:      Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:31:19 -0700
From:      Parker Brown <phbrown@charter.net>
To:        Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org>
Cc:        BSDQuestions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Display Managers and X11 4 (ala FreeBSD 4.6)
Message-ID:  <3D5988B7.CEADF5FE@charter.net>
References:  <20020813175506.N32167-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>

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I certainly do not intend to refute you, Kenneth, but I've been a subscriber
since 2.1.5, and I've never (prior to 4.6) seen documention that said
*something* to the effect that, as opposed to X11 3, you now have to install
a "wrapper" if you want to startx X11 with startx rather than with xdm.
There has been a change somehow.  I just don't recall encountering the name
xdm before.

Kenneth Culver wrote:

> > gdm (Gnome) is not so bad only in that it returns statements that imply
> > that I must find a list somewhere to edit  by some sort of rules.
> >
> > I guess I don't understand *dm, which I *think* is somehow new with X11
> > 4.
> >
> > Got any hints?  I really want to try both KDE (which is working, but
> > I've got to figure out how to modify it to my tastes) and gnome.
> >
> the display managers have been around for a LOOONG time. anyway, there is
> documentation for all of the display managers sitting around on the web,
> just search for it. It's not really hard to set these things up.
>
> Ken

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Pb




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