Could somebody, please, enlighten me! I've never been able to understand what the advantage of XDM (and the other XDM alternatives) is, over a console: mybox login: me Password: me@mybox:~> startx What's the use of all that XDM (and the like) extra cruft? The diffrence, as I see it, is 6 letters and a ^M. My recommendation has always been the above. But I want to see the light :) Cheers, Cristian