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Re: x-window display managers



"Jianan Huang" <huangjianan1@hotmail.com> writes:

> A simple question: gdm, kdm and xdm: which one uses minimum runtime
> memory?

Almost certainly xdm, since it doesn't have to pay the memory cost of
a major widget set.  (It might use Xt/Xaw, but I'm pretty sure that's
strictly cheaper than Qt or Gtk2.)  I haven't benchmarked this,
though, or compared with other display managers like wdm.

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David Maze         dmaze@debian.org      http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
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