[Trac #939] Can save much memory by running a simple display manager

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#939: Can save much memory by running a simple display manager
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 Reporter:  jg      |       Owner:  blizzard
     Type:  defect  |      Status:  new     
 Priority:  high    |   Milestone:  CTest   
Component:  distro  |    Keywords:          
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 The kludge tower used on many Linux desktops for starting up X and
 applications has become amazingly high, up to and including processes
 whose sole reason for existence to to allow you to have multiple display
 managers!!!!!

 Needless to say, this means a bunch of processes, including shells, are
 wasting RAM.  Probably to the tune of megabytes!

 We need to topple this tower.

 GDM is an amazing bloated Gnome pig.

 XDM uses an antique toolkit (Xt) we don't want on the system if we can
 avoid it.

 Another option, guaranteed small and with few dependencies and baggage is
 the gpe-dm (GPE is a handheld environment running on PDA's such as the
 iPAQ, Zaurus, Nokia 770 etc).  It's like 4kbytes of source code :-).

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