Re: Looking for nice, small display manager

[Toby Batch <debian-user@band-it.net>]

Anthony Campbell wrote:
> 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

Fluxbox.  I moved to it a couple of years ago and can't leave it now. 
It has features that the hefty wm's don't have (tabbed grouping for 
applications, mouse wheel switches desktop, and many more).