On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 02:44:01AM +0530, Jeffrin Jose T. wrote: | | Is there any technical advantage in using a display manager | to start X window system apart from using "xinit" related | stuff from the command line ?
You get a nice pretty screen to login to. You can use XDMCP. You can allow nice shutdowns without logging in first. You could have a list of users (with icons or mug shots) to point-n-click from rather than typing the name. I don't know if all of these are desirable, but those are some of the features provided by gdm. -D
