> > 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? Some people really seem to dislike them and I can't see why. > > Useless eye candy? Wasteful of resources when unused? Potential > > security hole? > Some people still think anything more advanced than ed (or maybe vi) and a commandline is too much. Others are reminded of Windows (and forget to change the default from fvwm95 to windowmaker...). I am certain there are holes in X. There are holes almost everywhere (though a java application to print hell world might be the exception).
> /etc/profile becomes useless with a display manager... > Found that out last week... Added 'source /etc/profile' to .bashrc and it works again. Jeroen T. Wenting [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try Jive, open source forum software www.coolservlets.com/jive Murphy was wrong, things that can't go wrong will anyway
