Re: Looking for nice, small display manager
>> 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
>
>Anthony Campbell wrote:
>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 should try Fluxbox with Rox filer, and Rox Session. You can put
icons on your desktop very easy, and have one of the best file
managers arround with Rox Filer. I find this to be one of the best
combo's, also Rox filer can be used with different WM's but I must
say Fluxbox is very nice. Only thing I wish it had was an easier
way to save sessions, like KDE does, but I guess that is what start
up scripts are for.
Rthoreau
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