[ale] X windows woes

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Mon Sep 20 12:58:49 EDT 1999


On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Holbrook, Paul wrote:

> I was only able to make this work by killing gdm, which Redhat 6 spawns
> to handle X session requests, and starting xdm.  Since gdm appears to be
> intended as a drop-in replacment for xdm, I still don't understand why
> xdm works where gdm fails.

gdm2 supports XDMCP.  gdm1 doesn't.  gdm1 is what comes with RH 6, since
gdm2 is still beta (though 2 will be in 6.1).

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                               kaboom at gatech.edu
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