Re: [toolbox-l] KDE /. linux affinity

[Marc S. <ma...@au...>]

I asked the CDE development team about this.  There is apparently no
supported user-friendly way of adding sessions to dtlogin (yet).

Marc

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> From marc Wed Mar  7 09:34:38 2001
> Subject: Re: [toolbox-l] KDE /. linux affinity
> To: Ral...@Ph... (Ralf Utermann)
> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 09:34:38 -0600 (CST)
> Cc: aix...@dw...
> Reply-To: ma...@au...
> In-Reply-To: <200...@ph...> from "Ralf Utermann" at Mar 07, 2001 04:28:24 PM
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> We're going to publish KDE 2.1 soon, but we're going to do it at the
> same time that we align ourselves with future changes to libtool, which
> will allow our offerings to become compatible with the freeware offerings
> from Bull.  Unfortunately, there are some very low-level libraries which
> will change in a one-time-only binary incompatible fashion which will be
> painful for many of us.  I'm going to see what I can do to reduce the 
> amount of trouble that it causes everyone.
> 
> Marc
> 
> > 
> > On 07.03.01, Marc Stephenson wrote:
> > >=20
> > > I don't know much about CDE customization, though I'd start by looking
> > > in the documentation for "sessions."  Maybe somebody else on the
> > > mailing list will chime in with a better answer.
> > >=20
> > We start with kdm as login manager, which per default in it's
> > session also shows 'CDE' besides KDE. So the users which still=20
> > want the CDE desktop can do this without problems.
> >  There is still one point why I would want to use dtlogin, and
> > that's the one with doing a 'command line login', login in
> > to the console, exit, and dtlogin automatically resumes the
> > X login window.=20
> > This is not possible with KDM and as the RS6k's don't allow
> > multiple consoles as a Linux box this is really annoying.
> > Reza, any news with KDE 2.1? Anything changed in this repect?
> > 
> > Regards, Ralf
> > --=20
> >         Ralf Utermann
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Marc Stephenson		                          IBM Server Group - Austin, TX
Internet:  ma...@au...                          NOTES: ma...@us...
Phone:   512-327-5670                                              T/L 678-3189