Dear All,
Is the display manager only a login screen? Or is it also the backbone of the desktop manager?
Could you please elaborate a bit on this? I have searched on Google for it, and got the impression that a display manager is not more than a login screen.
Thanks in advance,
Paul
On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 13:12 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
Dear All,
Is the display manager only a login screen? Or is it also the backbone of the desktop manager?
Could you please elaborate a bit on this? I have searched on Google for it, and got the impression that a display manager is not more than a login screen.
A display manager manages displays (duh!), since you can have more than one and they might have different specs and be located in different places. A typical function is to fire up a login screen, which provides the entry point to a desktop manager (often selectable). However the display manager doesn't participate in this beyond detecting when the desktop manager terminates and putting up a new login screen.
For more detail, you need to read up on the X Window System. This is not a specifically Linux thing. In fact it's not strictly even a Unix thing.
poc
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.com wrote:
Is the display manager only a login screen? Or is it also the backbone of the desktop manager?
Could you please elaborate a bit on this? I have searched on Google for it, and got the impression that a display manager is not more than a login screen.
A display manager manages displays (duh!), since you can have more than one and they might have different specs and be located in different places. A typical function is to fire up a login screen, which provides the entry point to a desktop manager (often selectable). However the display manager doesn't participate in this beyond detecting when the desktop manager terminates and putting up a new login screen.
For more detail, you need to read up on the X Window System. This is not a specifically Linux thing. In fact it's not strictly even a Unix thing.
Thanks, Patrick, for your clarification. If a display manager provides only a login screen, then what is the point of discussing whether a display manager is lightweight or not, as the ongoing discussion on the this list?
Paul
On 05/26/2011 07:12 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
Thanks, Patrick, for your clarification. If a display manager provides only a login screen, then what is the point of discussing whether a display manager is lightweight or not, as the ongoing discussion on the this list?
You might want to read
http://mjg59.livejournal.com/136274.html
Rahul
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Rahul Sundaram metherid@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, Patrick, for your clarification. If a display manager provides only a login screen, then what is the point of discussing whether a display manager is lightweight or not, as the ongoing discussion on the this list?
You might want to read
Thanks, Rahul, for the useful reference.
Paul