Re: Looking for nice, small display manager

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

W. Borgert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a nice display manager (for XFCE4).  My
> expectations are:
>
> * good looking :-)  (GTK+ 2 preferred)
> * small (not hundreds of dependencies on GNOME, KDE, ...)
> * remote capable (XDMCP support)
> * "system menu" (reboot/shutdown)
>
> Considered so far:
>
> gdm - best so far, but much too many dependencies on GNOME
> kdm - not installed, too many dependencies on Qt/KDE
> pdm - seems to be a graphical login w/o XDMCP, still GTK+ 1
> wdm - works, but I had problems with "system menu", not sure
>       about XDMCP
> xdm - works, but is ugly, IMHO
>
> My preference would be gdm minus GNOME, but maybe other
> Debian users have better ideas?  If nothing helps, I will
> use xdm.
>
> Cheers, WB

I use gdm because I start multiple X servers to support multiple users 
with Backstreet Ruby. It is the only display manager who does that 
right. (i.e. not all at once and when stopping in reverse not all at 
once) I don't have gnome installed as session manager but fvwm as window 
manager. I just install gdm and that's all.

Hugo.