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Re: display manager related



On Sat, 2001-09-29 at 14:40, dman wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 02:44:01AM +0530, Jeffrin Jose T. wrote:
> | 
> |  Is there any technical advantage in using a display manager
> |  to start X window system apart from using "xinit" related
> |  stuff from the command line ?
> 
> You get a nice pretty screen to login to.  You can use XDMCP.  You can
> allow nice shutdowns without logging in first.  You could have a list
> of users (with icons or mug shots) to point-n-click from rather than
> typing the name.
> 
> I don't know if all of these are desirable, but those are some of the
> features provided by gdm.
> 
> -D
> 
> 
Plus you can have several different xsession configurations available 
a mouse click away.




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