Xdm/Kdm/Gmd

[Charles Howse]

On Thursday 04 December 2003 02:39 pm, Payne wrote:
> Charles Howse wrote:
> >On Thursday 04 December 2003 01:07 pm, Payne wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>Thanks for the help early, I am wanting to have either xdm/kdm/gdm to
> >>start once my system it up, how can I do this? Also which is best?
> >
> >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html
> >
> >This will detail the process for you.
> >As to which is best, that's only valid if you are running Gnome AND KDE.
> >I'm not familiar with gdm, but kdm is bundled w/ KDE, and xdm is bundled
> > w/ XFree86.
>
> Thanks, I have printed out the mannual so I will take a look at. GMD  =
> Gnome, I am old linux guy and I like kdm, I was hoping there was a wdm
> port, it suppose to be the best. Oh well.

[charles at moe /usr/ports]$ make search key=wdm
[snip]
Port:   wdm-1.25_1
Path:   /usr/ports/x11/wdm
Info:   WINGs Display Manager; an xdm replacement
Maint:  kris at FreeBSD.org
Index:  x11 windowmaker
B-deps: Hermes-1.3.3 XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_6 expat-1.95.6_1 
fontconfig-2.2.90_3 freetype2-2.1.5_1 gettext-0.12.1 imake-4.3.0_1 jpeg-6b_1 
libiconv-1.9.1_3 libungif-4.1.0b1_1 pkgconfig-0.15.0 png-1.2.5_2 tiff-3.6.0 
windowmaker-0.80.2_1 wmicons-1.0
R-deps: Hermes-1.3.3 XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_6 expat-1.95.6_1 
fontconfig-2.2.90_3 freetype2-2.1.5_1 gettext-0.12.1 imake-4.3.0_1 jpeg-6b_1 
libiconv-1.9.1_3 libungif-4.1.0b1_1 pkgconfig-0.15.0 png-1.2.5_2 tiff-3.6.0 
windowmaker-0.80.2_1 wmicons-1.0

-- 
Thanks,
Charles
http://howse.homeunix.net:8080

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