On Thu 22 Sep 2016 at 09:11:53 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 09:19:11PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > I'm not a DE or DM user, so I'm know very little about them. > > Yes, THIS is the problem! You, and I, and everyone else on the guru side > are just completely stumped.
No, the problem is you snipped most of what David Wright said and the essence of his point as I (a non-guru) understood it was lost. So, here it is again: > I'm not a DE or DM user, so I'm know very little about them. But I > don't understand the concept of "user configuration" for a DM. > Wouldn't that be like a user configuring /etc/issue, the login prompt > or /etc/motd ? Logging in on a terminal involves a getty and login prompt. This is not user configurable. You fit in with what is offered or you do not get to log in. It doesn't matter if you have a deep understanding of the process or not. A DM offers the same options of username and password. A user cannot configure that offering in any other way. What's the difference? You might have a legitimate complaint about a DM's documentation but that is a different issue which can be rectified with co-operation between DM developers and users. -- Brian.
