Sven LUTHER wrote: > > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:11:19AM -0600, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Branden and I discussed the issue of dm's that have wm lists to choose > > from several months ago. At that time he thought that maybe the > > update-menu type of approach would be a good way to solve this. I'd like > > to restate what my understanding of the problem and current suggested > > solution and see what people think. (and then find out where we go next > > from here) > > > > Problem: Desktop Managers like kdm and gdm support Window Manager > > listing so that users can choose what they want to login in > > using. There currently is no common way for wm's to register > > themselves with each/any/all dm's that may be installed on the > > system. > > mmm, here you are talking the graphical login prompt (don't know it's > propper name)
Display Manager (dm) > who ask for what kind of session you are wanting. As an example, gdm > currently proposes to launch gnome-session, whatever is in Xsession or xsm. > > Note that these are no window managers? For the gnome session, you can then > choose the window-manager in the control center. gnome-session, startkde and whatnot _are_ window managers as far as the dm is concerned. AFAICT Ivan's approach is good if menu can't be (ab)used for this purpose. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
