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On 08/25/2010 01:40 PM, Robert Bridge wrote: |
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> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Sorry, but that has several bits of misinformation. |
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>> "xdm" is not a generic term, or at least I didn't mean it that way. It's the |
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>> package x11-apps/xdm. |
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> Gentoo uses the term xdm in two ways, one is for the xdm display |
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> manager, provided by that package. The other is for the init scripts |
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> used to launch a display manager. The init script launches the display |
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> manager specified in the config files, kdm being the common one |
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> choosen for KDE. |
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You put it very well, Robbie. I should have said xdm is the more |
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"ancient" term, the generic display manager that's been around since the |
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dawn of X. Which everyone hated. So folks wrote new ones that had more |
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pizazz and nifty features, which they loved. They're all still X display |
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managers (thus, xdm), so you use xdm to start it. One of your display |
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managers could be ye olde xdm, if you choose. |
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