New system-config-acpid

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Fri May 23 03:43:32 UTC 2008


Jesse Keating <jkeating <at> redhat.com> writes:
> On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 18:46 +0300, Pavel Shevchuk wrote:
> > To make laptop custom buttons work in gdm/kdm?
> 
> gdm at least runs session agents like gnome-power-manager so that you
> can get events like this.

GDM essentially starts up a full-blown desktop environment in the display 
manager, which IMHO is really overkill! How much stuff do you need running to 
prompt for username and password? Meanwhile KDM gets along just fine without 
even a window manager, let alone all those daemons.

        Kevin Kofler




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