New graphical login manager wdm

Brett I. Holcomb bholcomb
Mon May 17 11:44:58 PDT 2004


Okay, I think I see now.  Wdm extends xdm to give you the ability to pick 
the window manager/desktop environment without the bloat of KDE or Gnome 
and xfce is a desktop environment.

Thank you.  I may look at wdm when I get my system hardware backup.

Collins wrote:

> On Thursday 20 February 2003 04:14 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>> How does this fit in with xfce - aren't they both window managers?
>>
> 
> Sorry, I didn't completely answer your question.  Top posting always
> confuses me!
> 
> xfce is a window manager, but you can't use it to do graphical login
> management (run level 5 on most systems).
> 

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