Looking for nice display manager

John Shane jslists at mtwafrica.org
Sat Mar 13 16:51:59 CET 2004


May I ask a dumb question here?  How does quingy or any of the programs
mentioned relate to wfwm4?  Do they perform different functions?  John

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:33:12 +0000
Mark Houlder <mark.houlder at ot-t.com> wrote:

> try qingy (http://qingy.sourceforge.net/), which uses xdirectfb rather
> 
> than X (but switches automatically to X when needed, ie logging in to 
> xfce); not sure about it being remote capable but it looks good, works
> 
> well, hasn't got too many dependencies and has the system menu you're 
> after. i use it on my laptop and am very happy with it
> 
> 
> mark
> 
> 
> 
> W. Borgert wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm looking for a nice display manager for XFCE4.  My expectations
> >are:
> >
> >* good looking :-)  (GTK+ 2 preferred)
> >* small (not hundreds of dependencies on GNOME, KDE, whatever)
> >* remote capable (XDMCP support)
> >* "system menu" (reboot/shutdown)
> >
> >Tried so far:
> >
> >xdm - works, but is ugly, IMHO
> >wdm - works, but problems with "system menu", not sure about XDMCP
> >gdm - best so far, but much too many dependencies on GNOME
> >
> >My preference would be gdm minus GNOME, but maybe other XFCE4 users
> >have better ideas?
> >
> >Cheers, WB
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