New graphical login manager wdm

Kurt Wall kwall
Mon May 17 11:44:38 PDT 2004


Feigning erudition, Collins wrote:
% FYI,
% 
% A user on another group pointed out this package, and I like it.  Wdm is based 
% on xdm, but it allows you complete choice of Session type, reboot or 
% shutdown, etc. from the gui login panel.
% 
% The home page is :  http://voins.program.ru/wdm/
% 
% I'm using wdm-1.22 from a gentoo ebuild, but there is a bug in pam support 
% which the author will fix soon and release 1.22.1.  If you need his 
% workaround for 1.22, let me know.
% 
% BTW, there is a gentoo ebuild for wdm, but it hasn't been released because of 
% work on the gentoo 1.4_final release.  If you need the ebuild, cf. gentoo 
% bugzilla #15660.

Alas, it has a dependency on WindowMaker >= 0.17.5 for the WINGs and 
wraster libs and headers.

Kurt
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