Bug#572372: O: wdm -- WINGs Display Manager - an xdm replacement with a WindowMaker look
Hi,
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Next step might be to remove it [wdm] from Debian alltogether. We do
> not really need all the display managers currently in the archive.
> :)
I disagree strongly.
WDM has the unique feature that it has not all the bloaty crap and
broken design that kdm, gdm and especially gdm3 have (WTF does a login
manager need sound, a window manager and power management? WTF does
gdm3 redirect .Xauthority to some non-standard location?), but has the
advantage over xdm of letting the user to choose his session type
without the need to write a .xsession file.
IMHO wdm is perfectly suited for setups with managed workstations
where the users are not allowed to shut down or do other harm to also
remotely used workstations.
> I do not use wdm, but am interested in seeing the new Xreset.d feature
> in Squeeze for all display managers. :)
You got that anyway.
And yes, I'm thinking about adopting wdm. If we continue to have major
issues with that gdm3 crap at work, we may switch back to wdm which
has served us very well for many years. Unfortunately exchanging the
login manager is way more complicated on Ubuntu than on Debian --
which was the main reason to switch from wdm to gdm3. *sigh*
(On my privat boxes I use xdm, fwiw.)
Regards, Axel
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