Configuring KDM and GDM
The First Display
Author(s): HAGEN HÖPFNER
Both KDE and GNOME have display managers.We’ll look at the features offered by KDM and GDM,and we’ll examine how to configure a display manager for your Linux system.
On many systems, the display or login manager is the first GUI program the user sees. Most major distributions automatically launch the X Window system. Users type their names and passwords to log on and select an environment. They can often select other options, such as an option for shutting down or rebooting. KDM, by the KDE project, and its Gnome counterpart GDM are the most popular display managers, but there are a number of alternatives, such as the legacy XDM or the small-footprint WDM managers. The login manager has no influence on the desktop the machine runs; even the biggest KDE fans could still use GDM to log on to the system and launch their favorite environment. The only disadvantage is that installing GDM puts a lot of Gnome libraries on your hard disk, taking up valuable storage space. This article explains how to change the display manager on Fedora Core 2, Suse Linux 9.1, and Mandrake Linux 10.0, and how you can add window managers to the drop-down list.
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