On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 12:17:16PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
> 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).
>
or wdm
> erik
>
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