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Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package



At 1149646535 past the epoch, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Why gdm and not wdm? gdm depends on a horribly large bunch
> of libraries including GNOME. wdm depends on way less
> libraries, looks not as bare as xdm by default does and
> still is fast and easy to use.  (We use it on all our
> Debian workstations at the Department of Physics at ETH
> Zurich.)

One reason: wdm (really wings) has no keyboard-shortcut
support. You are forced to use a mouse to operate it.

-- 
Jon Dowland
http://alcopop.org/



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