Re: gdm/xdm/wdm conflict
The Red Hat solution is to have /etc/X11/prefdm, which is a symlink to
the "preferred display manager". /etc/inittab runs /etc/X11/prefdm,
which is ordered to stick to ttyv7. The Debian way would be to do a
similar thing using /etc/alternatives. I'm not an expert in this area
of Debian, so I'm not trying to say this is the best solution, only
that it does work on Red Hat and that I don't think it was in one of
your lists.
> Richard Braakman disagrees, and says that we have always shipped Debian
> with a not-fully-installable Optional priority. Why don't we find out if
> attacking this display manager problem really is going to solve issue 2)
> generally?
Well, I disagree with Richard Braakman here, but he's in charge of
release engineering and I'll happily defer to him. Perhaps this would
be a worthy release goal for woody?
> > Number (1) is a wishlist item.
>
> I wouldn't trivialize it to that degree because of the consequences when
> you lock up the console of a standalone box.
I wasn't trying to trivialize it; just describe the appropriate place
to file that portion of thd bug.
Thomas
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