On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 13:40 -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > Barclay, Daniel wrote: > > Paul E Condon wrote: > > > ... [gdm] needs a window manager before the user has even logged in.
No. xdm/kdm/gdm don't use a window manager (that's why the look and feel is so different). Just run "ps ax" from a console if you have a doubt. > > What features of a window manager does it need or use? > > > > (I don't use gdm. Does it have multiple windows that the user might > > need to move around or that the user might want to see decorated?) > I removed twm, and gdm still works fine here. I can think of two good reasons (at least) why twm is there: 1. if the [gnome|kde|xfce|...] window manager is broken, you can still open a GUI session using twm to fix the problem. 2. if you remove gnome/gdm (because you want to switch to pure KDE system, for example), the packages dependencies on x-window-manager are still met... and not all packages are removed. So using 390k to make the users' life easier seems a good deal. Regards, Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
