On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 10:01:34PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> Can you enlighten us on why you have such strong feelings about display
> managers?
I quit smoking a few weeks ago. So I am coming across much more vituperative
than I am when at my best. An excuse, I know, it's the best I can do. Ask my
wife what it's been like...
> Some people really seem to dislike them and I can't see why.
> Useless eye candy? Wasteful of resources when unused? Potential
> security hole?
I avoid them because of precisely the sort of problem our interlocutor is
having. There are many tasks I prefer to do in the console, but I do as a
rule live in X. So the compromise for me is to go back and forth quickly and
easily, which means deepsix-ing xdm and its cousins.
Hopefully I'll calm down in a few years.
--
Bob Bernstein "Sufficiently advanced file sharing systems
at should be indistinguishable from corporate
Esmond, R.I., USA VPNs. Bless VPNs for creating all that
suspicious-looking encrypted traffic." D.Marti
