Re: FVWM: FVWM as a Display Manager

From: Erik Steffl <steffl_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:17:16 -0700

Stephen Dennison wrote:
> Out of curiosity has anyone ever thought about using fvwm in place of
> a display manager? Have any developers thought about creating an fvwm
> config that would act as a display manager, or implementing a display
> manager that is fvwm driven?
>
> Basically I just want a display manager that will allow either user
> selection from a menu or a user name and password entry, but I dont'
> want to have to rely on gnome or kde under-pinings. I was thinking
> that I could probably just start up a stripped down window session
> with fvwm and remove all of the default key-bindings. (Or maybe start
> up a non-privelaged user account that doesn't have a shell entry and
> have it present the menu...) I could then decorate it with all the
> eye candy and functionality that gdm provides, but I'm not sure how to
> go about replacing the currently running fvwm session with an fvwm
> session running as a different user.
>
> So I guess in all of my rambling my question isn't really fvwm
> specific, but it does relate to fvwm. How do I create a new fvwm
> session from a currently running fvwm session with different user
> privelages?

   ?

   if you don't want to use kdm or gdm you can use xdm, that's plain X
(default is kinda ugly but you can configure the look).

        erik

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Received on Fri Jul 23 2004 - 14:20:03 BST

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