Re: dm management of wm listings (kdm/gdm/etc..)
Sven LUTHER wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:11:19AM -0600, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Branden and I discussed the issue of dm's that have wm lists to choose
> > from several months ago. At that time he thought that maybe the
> > update-menu type of approach would be a good way to solve this. I'd like
> > to restate what my understanding of the problem and current suggested
> > solution and see what people think. (and then find out where we go next
> > from here)
> >
> > Problem: Desktop Managers like kdm and gdm support Window Manager
> > listing so that users can choose what they want to login in
> > using. There currently is no common way for wm's to register
> > themselves with each/any/all dm's that may be installed on the
> > system.
>
> mmm, here you are talking the graphical login prompt (don't know it's
> propper name)
Display Manager (dm)
> who ask for what kind of session you are wanting. As an example, gdm
> currently proposes to launch gnome-session, whatever is in Xsession or xsm.
>
> Note that these are no window managers? For the gnome session, you can then
> choose the window-manager in the control center.
gnome-session, startkde and whatnot _are_ window managers as far as the dm is
concerned.
AFAICT Ivan's approach is good if menu can't be (ab)used for this purpose.
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