Some of you may know of "smxi" which is a set of administration
scripts for Debian going back a number of years. Originating from the
sidux project,  smxi is well-known and repected among Debian
(particularly testing/sid) users.

I recently requested on smxi forum

 http://techpatterns.com/forums/about2131-10.html

for kdm-trinity to be added to the list of supported display managers.
The scripts autodetect the default DM so it can stop/start it when
nececcary.

The admin was happy to do so, however it did not work as expected
because of TDE naming inconsistencies and the DM executable being in
other than /usr/bin

$ which kdm
/opt/trinity/bin/kdm

$ ls /etc/init.d | grep kdm
kdm-trinity

$ cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager
/opt/trinity/bin/kdm

I would like to draw attention to this, as I am sure TDE would be more
widely accepted if more general standards were followed (however, I
know the team is already working in this area)