Re: Looking for nice, small display manager

[Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk>]

On 13 Mar 2004, 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


Icewm?

AC

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