tag 201855 + wontfix thanks On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 08:12:56AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > D> gdm,kdm,wdm > > I know, but this old dog, me, doesn't learn new tricks. > > D> Speaking of classrooms: DebianEdu (previously/also known as Skolelinux), > D> the Custom Debian Distribution for schools uses KDM (and the rest of > D> KDE) for the desktop, so that situation is covered. > > Anyway, maybe others would want to use xdm for their projects because of its barebonesedness. > > D> Of these at least the first two can do autologin, I have never used wdm, > D> but it wouldn't surprise me if it had the capability too. > > OK, maybe they could use that. I think you answered your own question. There's no reason for there to be One True Display Manager. Different strokes for different folks. xdm is largely a sample implementation of how to do a window manager. While it *could* support an autologin feature, there's not really a compelling reason for it to do so when alternatives exist. I am tagging this bug wontfix, as I have no intention of implementing the requested feature myself. However, if someone wants to write a patch to implement this functionality, I'll give it consideration. If I were to hack on xdm myself, there are other features that would take higher priority. In the meantime, I suggest you try out a different display manager. wdm and kdm are both very similar to xdm from a configuration standpoint. gdm is a bit different, and uses a Windows .INI-style configuration format. -- G. Branden Robinson | "Why do we have to hide from the Debian GNU/Linux | police, Daddy?" branden@debian.org | "Because we use vi, son. They use http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | emacs."
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