__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Thursday 22 March 2007 14:59 \__
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:11:10 +0000
> <8515519.Bp0WMvIX3h@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> __/ [ 486box ] on Tuesday 20 March 2007 21:07 \__
>>
>>>>twm.
>>>
>>> I actually like TWM. It's light, useful, extensively configurable,
>>> etc. Not much to look at, but not horrible. I use it on all machines
>>> with less than 200mhz processors (which is a lot of machines here)
>>> that I need to have X on.
>>
>> twm is set as my login manager at home.
>>
>
> Huh? Twm is a *window* manager -- very light footprint, very basic.
>
> For login management, one uses xdm, kdm, or gdm. (There may be
> others; I'll admit to some curiosity. Customization of xdm
> is possible.)
>
> For session management, xsm used to be top dog, though nowadays
> it appears to be integrated into the rest of the GUI environment.
>
> (Personally, I prefer metacity/Gnome.)
Oops. I realised this shortly after I had posted. twm used to be my windows
manager briefly, and xdm was the login manager. But KDE (running on just 256
MB of RAM I might add) is my desktop environment, with KWin as the windows
manager. In KDE 3.4 there's an odd bug which kills KWin if you press alt+F4
in full screen mode. I don't know if it's distro-specific though. It may
have been resolved since then... been well over a year.
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