On 10/4/18 3:04 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 10/04/18 17:52, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> A DM presents a graphical login screen, handles user logins, and allows >> you to select which DE you want to run at login time. Many people find >> that useful, but if you don't then that's up to you. >> >> poc > . > A good explanation, I can't find that with Google. Maybe I don't know > how to ask? But I can go with yours, thank you. Yes, a display manager (DM) presents a GUI login screen (called a "greeter") and generally allows you to select which desktop environment (DE) you want to use (e.g. XFCE, Mint, KDE, Gnome, whatever). Since you're specifically starting XFCE via startxfce4, then a DM doesn't really buy you anything and isn't necessary. If, however, you do want the system to boot up to a GUI to allow someone to log in, you have to install one of the DMs, enable it, and have the system boot to the multi-user.target level to make that all work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Is that a buffer overflow or are you just happy to see me? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
