On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:42:31PM +0200, Marco Pantaleoni (panta@prosa.it) wrote: On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 10:01:34PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > Can you enlighten us on why you have such strong feelings about display > managers? Some people really seem to dislike them and I can't see why. > Useless eye candy? Wasteful of resources when unused? Potential > security hole? While I don't have a particularly strong feeling on the subject, I'd basically agree to all of the above, with the additional problem that it complicates the system and makes things harder to fix when they break. startx is a good, simple, solid tool. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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