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Re: Looking for nice, small display manager



On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 08:28:49AM +0000, Toby Batch wrote:
> 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).
> 

You guys did notice that he is looking for a display manager, not a
window manager ;-) the thing that gives the login screen.

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