On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 13:12 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > Is the display manager only a login screen? Or is it also the backbone > of the desktop manager? > > Could you please elaborate a bit on this? I have searched on Google > for it, and got the impression that a display manager is not more than > a login screen. A display manager manages displays (duh!), since you can have more than one and they might have different specs and be located in different places. A typical function is to fire up a login screen, which provides the entry point to a desktop manager (often selectable). However the display manager doesn't participate in this beyond detecting when the desktop manager terminates and putting up a new login screen. For more detail, you need to read up on the X Window System. This is not a specifically Linux thing. In fact it's not strictly even a Unix thing. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
