2009-04-19, 20:00
My big THANK YOU first of all! I've run up and down this guide a lot of times now and I can say it is really helpful.
I'm using jaunty since alpha 5. Everything works fine following the intrepid instructions, except for the usplash thing which btw did not work too well in intrepid either.
And here to my question:
There are lots of places with warnings about gdm or probably any windows manager. I simply obeyed and things like fullscreen start etc. always worked perfectly. But then I started exploring a bit more "advanced" options from xbmc, like
- calling firefox for some widescreen googling
- xmame using launcher plugin
- vdr tv watching
- (mythtv...yes I tried that also...still trying to forget)
So now I have to come back to that gdm thing for clarifications: why is it we should avoid window managers?
Trying the things above is quiet hard (impossible?) after one followed this HOW-TO, and some threads seem to suggest that exactly HAVING a window manager eases their handling. (For example starting firefox is very easy, but it will stay in the foreground and won't get focus so basically you have to kill it from terminal. xmame problems are similar).
So after all this introduction, I'd like to know:
1. why no gdm?
2. why gdm?
or in other words why use or not use a window manager?
I thought having the system with just/exactly what is needed was the way to go, trying to minimize boot time and making the pc a sort of xbox on steroids. but now I start wondering...
I'm using jaunty since alpha 5. Everything works fine following the intrepid instructions, except for the usplash thing which btw did not work too well in intrepid either.
And here to my question:
There are lots of places with warnings about gdm or probably any windows manager. I simply obeyed and things like fullscreen start etc. always worked perfectly. But then I started exploring a bit more "advanced" options from xbmc, like
- calling firefox for some widescreen googling
- xmame using launcher plugin
- vdr tv watching
- (mythtv...yes I tried that also...still trying to forget)
So now I have to come back to that gdm thing for clarifications: why is it we should avoid window managers?
Trying the things above is quiet hard (impossible?) after one followed this HOW-TO, and some threads seem to suggest that exactly HAVING a window manager eases their handling. (For example starting firefox is very easy, but it will stay in the foreground and won't get focus so basically you have to kill it from terminal. xmame problems are similar).
So after all this introduction, I'd like to know:
1. why no gdm?
2. why gdm?
or in other words why use or not use a window manager?
I thought having the system with just/exactly what is needed was the way to go, trying to minimize boot time and making the pc a sort of xbox on steroids. but now I start wondering...