Graphical Display Managers

Girard Henri girardhenri at free.fr
Sun Apr 27 16:30:18 UTC 2008


dpkg-reconfigure kdm /gdm or kdm-kde4 let you choose the startup manager.

at the moment I keep dpkg-reconfigure gdm
because the others block..

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael" <mmorse757 at gmail.com>
To: "Kubuntu Help and User Discussions" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 3:08 PM
Subject: Graphical Display Managers


>I know Google is my friend but I am being lazy and I am hoping I can get
> a highly condensed version of an answer to the following:
>
> What is the difference between GDM/KDM/XDM?  What is the difference
> between typing KDM/GDM/XDM at the command prompt and typing startx at
> the command prompt?
>
> I am asking because I downloaded Ubuntu and then download all of the KDE
> stuff.  However, it seems GDM is still the current graphical manager.
> I just assumed (yes, I know) that by downloading and running KDE stuff,
> that KDM would then become the default graphical manager.
>
>
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