This is what happens when a BSD hacker is told to use Linux

Mon Sep 19 23:06:49 PDT 2005

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Guy B. Purcell wrote:

> P. S.  Did you ever figure out how to make Gnome & xdm play  
> together?  Knowing that may come in handy someday (I used to do  
> something similar when I had Solaris on my desktop).

that should be defined in /etc/X11/xinit

and or you can make your own ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsessions
that will work with either desktop with any window manager
and login screen

c ya
alvin