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Re: Window managers-which one?



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On 10/31/06 09:24, George Borisov wrote:
> B. Hoffmann wrote:
[snip]
> You will also need a display manager (unless you like the whole
> startx thing).

Grouchy Geek says, "Since you can start X with startx, by
definition, you do *not need* a display manager.

> xdm - small and simple and can look nice with a bit of effort
> wdm - small and simple but ugly :-(
> gdm - pretty and simple but not small and depends on lots of
> Gnome libraries
> kdm - probably pretty as well (don't use it) but depends on
> pretty much the entire of KDE.
> 
> I personally use gdm, but I used wdm before (before getting too
> depressed about how ugly it is.)

Why waste RAM on something you have *no* need for and doesn't *do*
anything that the console does just as well?

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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