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From: Robert Bridge <robert@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:41:24
Message-Id: AANLkTi=kyTfYxCX5xEU1KmzwE=xm8vH=htWxsCAqgv=j@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager by Kevin O'Gorman
1 On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Sorry, but that has several bits of misinformation.
3 >
4 > "xdm" is not a generic term, or at least I didn't mean it that way. It's the
5 > package x11-apps/xdm.
6
7 Gentoo uses the term xdm in two ways, one is for the xdm display
8 manager, provided by that package. The other is for the init scripts
9 used to launch a display manager. The init script launches the display
10 manager specified in the config files, kdm being the common one
11 choosen for KDE.
12
13 You are complaining about kdm not shutting down, this is nothing at
14 all to do with x11-apps/xdm, which is an entirely separate package. If
15 you have both running, than, again, kdms inability to behave is NOT a
16 problem of x11-apps/xdm, though, arguably, it could be said to be a
17 problem of openrc.
18
19 RobbieAB

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Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager Bill Longman <bill.longman@×××××.com>