How to choose desktop manager
There are three main display managers to choose between: xdm, kdm and gdm.
xdm is a part of XFree86, kdm is a part of kdebase, and gdm (gdm-themes) is available as a seperate package.
Preferred displaymanager is set by the DISPLAYMANAGER in /etc/rc.conf.
Example:
DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm
The DISPLAYMANAGER variable is read by the script /etc/init.d/xdm . Add xdm to be run at boot with
rc-update add xdm default
To start your displaymanager once,
/etc/init.d/xdm start
will start whatever DISPLAYMANAGER set in /etc/rc.conf
Other nice display mangers in portage:
