Re: wdm and xdm co-exisitng - is this a bug?
On 20 May 1999, Jan Vroonhof wrote:
> Martin Bialasinski <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de> writes:
>
> > The thing is, that you could manage :0 with xdm, :1 with wdm and XDMCP
> > with gdm or such. So the packages don't conflict in a traditional
> > sense. But looks like all of them try to manage :0 and therefore there
> > is this mess.
>
> Wouldn't this be solved by having a general S99dm:0 startup script and
> having that managed by the alternative system?
No.
Whether {g,w,x}dm manage :0 or not is defined in their own configuration
files. If you want to use the setup described above, you'd have to start
all three of them and make sure that they don't claim the same display
yourself.
Remco
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