[sclug] kubuntu probs/questions

[Tom Chance]

Ahoy,

On Tuesday 28 Jun 2005 00:32, John Stumbles wrote:
> Can anyone explain (or point me to an explanation) in an arm-waving sort
> of way the relationship between kdm, gdm and kde and gnome? Seems I can
> run gnome under kdm (and maybe I can run kde under gdm? (and what about
> xdm??)) but I thought gdm gave you gnome, kdm -> kde.

KDM, GDM, XDM, MDM, Entrance and various other programs are all basically just 
login managers. They're just a fancy version of the shell login, and they 
happen to use standard techniques to launch your chosen environment when you 
login. Any compliant login manager will be able to launch any environment, be 
it the shell again, KDE, GNOME, Xfce, and so on...

KDM, GDM, etc. often have other clever features but for most people they're 
uninteresting :)

No waving arms, but hopefully that makes some sense?

Regards,
Tom

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