What dm to use?

[Auke Kok]

Erik Harrison wrote:
> On 9/10/06, Qiangning Hong <hongqn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> As Xfce doesn't provide a login manager, I am just curious about what
>> manager do you guys use? gdm? kdm? xdm? qingy? or just command line
>> startxfce4?
> 
> This question comes up a lot. You can check the archives, for previous
> discussion, but the general consensus is variety. Enough people prefer
> the features offered by kdm and gdm, and since their distro uses these
> by default, that's what they run. I myself use Xdm - Xfce is my only
> desktop environment, and I'm the only real user on the box. Some
> people also use wdm - I suspect more than a few people are converts to
> Xfce from Window Maker
> 
> Lots of people still just startxfce4 from the command line. Several
> people have spoken of forking gdm/xdm/wdm and making an Xfce login
> manager, or at least a nicer xdm-alike but except for occasional
> patchsets for deGnoming gdm nothing has ever come of it

I use slim and I know a lot of people use it together with xfce4, it's name 
says it all, and it's themable and rather easy to setup. Definately worth a try.

Auke