Re: kdm

[Sergey V Kovalyov <sqk0316@SCIRES.ACF.NYU.EDU>]

On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:

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> On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Alec Smith wrote:
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> > Difference is kdm is for starting the KDE environment only. xdm starts a
> > more traditional setup using fvwm2, windowmaker, or whichever you prefer.
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> Actually, that is quite untrue. Kdm provides a menu from which you can
> select the session that you wish to run (KDE, Window Maker, FVWM, etc).
> Kdm also provides the ability to shutdown or reboot your system from the
> login screen.  It can also provide icons for the available usernames on
> the system (like the SGI login).
> 
> I actually prefer wdm, the WINGS Desktop Manager to either.  It has about
> the same functionality as KDM, but it is built with WINGS, the Window
> Maker interface, so it looks quite nice.  It's included with slink.
> 
There is one very nice feature in kdm in 1.1 that is unfortunately absent
in wdm: kdm remembers your last session, when you type your username it
switches the menue to the last used session, so that you don't have to
click every time you login (if you prefere non-default one). Of course, it
is not importain for a single user.

Sergey.