On 29/11/2007, Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden> wrote:
> I find this confusing, or perhaps confused? In my experience, XDMCP
> has nothing to do with redrawing or keeping track of windows or any
> such thing: It is just a very simple protocol (that's the P in XDMCP)
> for an X server to ask some display manager if it wishes to, uh,
> manage a display, and for said display manager to respond and get a
> login session going. The classic case is the standard X11 program
> xdm, which does nothing more than set up a cookie, present a login
> screen, and then start the user's .xsession script (or a default one),
> after which it gets out of the way.
You are absolutely correct; xdmcp has nothing to do with window
redrawing or window management. I would even say that by the
time the login window appears, xdmcp is already out of the way,
since it is the remote xdm (or gdm, kdm, etc., there are a number
of them now) that has drawn the window and not "xdmcp" itself,
which is just a simple protocol to initiate a login session.
--
cheers,
-ambrose
Yahoo and Gmail must die. Yes, I use them, but they still must die.
PS: Don't trust everything you read in Wikipedia. (Very Important)
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