Display Manager and possible bugs

[Dott. Giovanni Bonenti]

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Myles Green ha scritto:
> On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 15:22:31 +0300
> Jani Monoses <jani.monoses at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>I suggest also installing the plugin that allows to set the window
>>>list on
>>>
>>>>the panel, because allows also to enlarge the panel to fit the
>>>>width of the screen.
>>>>With this plugin we could build a desktop interface that is very
>>>>similar to standard Ubuntu's Gnome interface.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>what is that plugin called? Looking in the plugins I could not find
>>>something similar. But I found 'show desktop' which may be good by
>>>deafault too?What do others think? It's in gnome too.
> 
> 
> He's refering to the taskbar plugin. I agree that both it and the show
> desktop plugins are quite usefull. Oh, and the weather plugin too.
> 


Exactly. on my XFCE I set the taskbar on the panel to display only
icons, and the default taskbar to display Icons and comments (Gnome
way). This way I don't need to kill the default taskbar.

I tried the panel-menu plugin, it's interesting but quite unstable (it
crashed twice my panel).

I've made some tests with wdm: it starts in about 15 seconds on my
laptop (pentium II 300, with 256 megs of RAM), faster than any GDM.
It lacks an user-friendly configuration tool, but with the man pages
setting the background and the logo editing the configuration file is
very simple.

There is a bug in the start script in /etc/init.d that searches the
executable files in the directory /usr/bin/X11 instead that in the
directory /usr/X11R6/bin: I solved with 2 symlinks in the first
directory, then all was fully functional.

Other suggestion for packages: gftp for downloading and manging ftp and ssh.

Cheers

Giovanni
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Dott. Giovanni Bonenti
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