Re: xdm and gdm
Joseph <debian.user@runbox.com> writes:
> 1) Recently I read in this mailing list that to use gdm I have to remove
> xdm. Cannot both of them coexist? i.e. both of them are installed. If
> yes then what precautions do I have to take?
The software itself can coexist, but on Debian gdm conflicts with
{w,x,k}dm, so dpkg will not let you have both. There's no technical
reason why both gdm and xdm cannot run at the same time. You just have
to ensure that only one of them is managing a particular X server, by
tweaking xdm's Xservers file, and gdm's gdm.conf file. If you support
XDMCP clients, then you might also tweak Xaccess (and gdm.conf) to
control which DM handles XDMCP requests.
If you just want to run a display manager on your console, gdm offers
everything that xdm offers, and more, so you don't really need xdm.
> 2) From where can I obtain .deb packages of gdm?
Add a deb-src for unstable or testing to your sources.list, apt-get
source gdm, debuild...
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