On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 11:47:23AM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > > Allow me to display my ignorance: what is gdm? Is it another component > of the x-windows-system? When I re-installed x-windows, it asked me to > select gdm or xdm. It's not an acronym for gnome, is it? Let me man it.
gdm and xdm are display managers. A display manager is the thing that puts the graphical login prompt on the screen. When you log in, it will start your x session for you, your window manager, and whatever else. gdm is the "Gnome display manager", and xdm is, I believe, the "X display manager" There's also a KDE display manager. Which you use seems to be a matter of taste. Any of the dm's can start any of the window managers. I like gnome because it lets me choose my window manager before I log in. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
