Looking for nice display manager
Lionel Laratte
myth47 at comcast.net
Sat Mar 13 11:08:56 CET 2004
Actually, they are display managers that let you decide whther to go
into XFce4 or KDE or Gnome or what nhave you. XFwm is actually a window
manager all its own...I think. I'm just a newbie trying to expand. I
think what I said is right, though.
On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 16:51, John Shane wrote:
> 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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