William Leese wrote:
>
> After recently getting used to the Blackbox WM i decided i'd try to replace
> all my KDE apps because they seem more CPU intensive (due to extra KDE
> proceses?) than other apps.
>
> Problem is that i've installed Kdm, not because i needed it.. but just
> because i thought it was quite convinient when using more than one WM.
>
> However, it is.. after all a KDE app.. which invokes other KDE services (do
> correct me if i'm wrong, this is just what i've observed from top) and
> because it will stay active till i log off X.. i'm kinda stuck with it..
>
> So, what i want to have is just plain X with an rxvt terminal.. but if i
> uninstall or pervent Kdm from starting, i'll be dumped into KDE when i startx
> by default. So the question (yes yes, finally) is how do i avoid this
> behavior, which script, config file needs to be changed and is there anything
> else i need to know?
you can use xdm, it's does not start anything that would tax your
system. I am not sure if it's one of the alternatives (the display
manager) but if not just update-rc.d kdm remove (or something like that,
check syntax) to remove kdm from start-up scripts (it does not remove
kdm, just the links under /etc/rc*, you can still astart it using
/etc/init.d/kdm start).
not sure if this will automatically reinstate xdm, if not either
(re)install xdm or use update-rc.d to create links in start up scripts.
erik
