On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 13:53 -0700, Aldo Foot wrote: > What I understand is that when initdefault is set to 5, there are > three components > that launch in this order: > (1) a Display Manager (GDM) > (2) an X Server > (3) a Desktop Manager (GNOME, KDE) > > gdm is simply a GUI where one can enter the user/pasword and choose a > Desktop Manager. Once you hit enter GDM, will launch X, which will > serve GNOME/KDE. kdm does the same thing. Also, it's useful to note that the Desktop Manager is what launches the X server (you can verify this by checking that /usr/bin/X is a child of /usr/bin/kdm). poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
