[sclug] kubuntu probs/questions

[John Stumbles]

Tom Chance wrote:
> 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?

I think so. Does gdm do the ring-a-roses picture and kdm the one with 
the screen and the house and the Switch User functionality?

-- 
John Stumbles