On Saturday 29 May 2004 18.29, Mark Gray wrote:
That explains that -- I did not look closely enough at SuSEconfig.xdm to see the bug, and just assumed that it was intentional. In any case doing things the SuSE way by editing /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager (or using yast) is almost always better than directly editing the config files themselves. (A painful lesson I have learned time and again :-)
The automated tools differ from distro to distro. The underlying config files are almost always identical. That's all the reason I need to stay on the lower level. I'd rather not submit myself to voluntary vendor lockin by only learning a single vendor's way of doing things. If you know how it's really done, doing it the suse way is a piece of cake. The reverse is very far from true