Re: "The xlogin widget, ..."

["Chris Henry" <chrishenry.ni@gmail.com>]

On Jan 29, 2008 2:39 AM, PETER EASTHOPE <peasthope@shaw.ca> wrote:
> Folk,
>
> "which login" tell me immediately that the familiar command line
> authentication is done by /bin/login.
>
> xdm.man refers to "The xlogin widget, which xdm presents ...".
> Good, but what program is it exactly?  There is no name on the GUI.
>
xlogin should be the program that offer the GUI login screen of xdm
(if you installed xdm).

> And where is this "widget" invoked?
>
I think if you install xdm via apt-get with x server installed, it
will be automatically invoked from one of the x server startup script.

Chris