From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OoeU9-0004f3-LT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:35:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 21C5EE0A7F; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:34:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-px0-f181.google.com (mail-px0-f181.google.com [209.85.212.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6014E0A7F for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:34:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi5 with SMTP id 5so1027470pxi.40 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:34:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=QisSmQYpdMW42dm/MJATkNn0JQlKPC9ck8fHWUH895Q=; b=tE1qtnhwzkC1qprMZ5JQFYMIpKOVqt7GvLm6pGg9mNWovS4Sslj8K+LIIxifaZpa5Z W+h5rfM8bEb06IHMuXYU1XbLyEHQuJDXzt2I12JJ3620eQyRMhCgzErs8XQ23Ypt4udR 85dcFkNVFvAVtypKMCI4d+NW5uMNUeQhRLhpg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=xcDgEq8d8z4ibaFRqH8dSxCCzmp2sAwtleNz80vll4zPvrz1MvUFxNqV/HKgiG20kd 4gpmworSWz2ZDno1P/ZUcbX+y7/EKUhxAK5CswPyeSVBsFnxvIDnvs3aAOnIbR4QLdD6 UIFaRgo/H3epbqlvBzJ3oCv/g12mBWvGFVSFQ= Received: by 10.114.130.20 with SMTP id c20mr11408730wad.104.1282836869142; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:34:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.12] ([209.20.133.224]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s5sm4669182wak.0.2010.08.26.08.34.27 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:34:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C768982.2090301@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:34:26 -0700 From: Bill Longman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100817 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.1.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager References: <4C75270A.3090909@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0685342d-a84d-4cbe-9355-f265efc25a34 X-Archives-Hash: 96fb85bbe6d6aefdcee9ace5b50fb328 On 08/25/2010 01:40 PM, Robert Bridge wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> Sorry, but that has several bits of misinformation. >> >> "xdm" is not a generic term, or at least I didn't mean it that way. It's the >> package x11-apps/xdm. > > Gentoo uses the term xdm in two ways, one is for the xdm display > manager, provided by that package. The other is for the init scripts > used to launch a display manager. The init script launches the display > manager specified in the config files, kdm being the common one > choosen for KDE. You put it very well, Robbie. I should have said xdm is the more "ancient" term, the generic display manager that's been around since the dawn of X. Which everyone hated. So folks wrote new ones that had more pizazz and nifty features, which they loved. They're all still X display managers (thus, xdm), so you use xdm to start it. One of your display managers could be ye olde xdm, if you choose.