Re: xdm and gdm
Bart Martens <bart.martens@chello.be> writes:
> I wouldn't know why you want them both to coexist. Do you want to login
> twice? ;-)
No, but maybe you want to use gdm on the actual console, but use xdm to
serve XDMCP to X servers that are not on the console (i.e., Windows X
servers).
I once ran into a situation where wdm would not work with the Windows X
server software we had (wdm needed the shm extension, IIRC). But, xdm
would work with the windows X servers. Hence, we ran the more functional
wdm on the console, but ran xdm to serve the Windows boxen.
Since there is no technical reason why multiple display managers cannot
run on a single box, I think that the trend to conflict with other
display managers in the {x,w,k,g}dm packages is not such a good idea. It
hasn't yet irritated me enough to get off my ass and file a bug report
though.
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