Strange message at startup

suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 17:44:23 UTC 2012


On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 17:31, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> It is even easier. After you put in your login name there is a window on
> the screen where you can chose thew window manager to boot.

Actually that is the way to switch desktop environments, not display
managers. A display manager is the interface which lets you login,
where as a desktop environment is the interface that you get after
login.

Display manager: gdm, kdm, xdm

Desktop environment: Gnome, KDE, XFCE, LXDE

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Suvayu

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