Re: another success story

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> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 00:08:39 -0300 (GMT-0300)
> From: Roberto Alsina <ralsina@unl.edu.ar>
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> On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Roger Dingledine wrote:
> 
> > >    Solaris does this one first login.  In this case, it should be
> > > possible to have a script in startx pick a window manager, and remove
> > > itself after really starting X.  Would be nice...  Maybe have the
> > > default home for a new user have this startX, and then delete itself
> > > allowing the real one to be called.
> > 
> > I could've sworn I recently saw an xdm variant that let you pick (from a
> > pull-down menu) which window manager you were going to use for that login.
> > It might have been gnome-based. I don't remember it very well.
> 
> kdm does that.
> 

The problem is that presently if you boot level 5 you get Xdm not KDM.
I need to fix that in order to make init choose the smarter dm
available unless told otherwise.

-- 
			Jean Francois Martinez

Project Independence: Linux for the Masses
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