On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 01:49:29PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > > > > >You can easily remove gdm: apt-get remove --purge gdm. > > > >The function of a Desktop Manager is to log in graphically and start the > >appropriate x session. If you don't like gdm, then perhaps xdm is more > >to your liking, or you can just get rid of all desktop managers and boot > >to a standard login and start xfce manually when you want it. > > > >Joe > > > > > > > Thanks joe. I expect I'll break everything but that's a great way to > learn
if you want to try operating without a desktop manager, you can do a couple things. 1) as root 'update-rc.d -f gdm remove' will remove the symlinks to gdm so that it doesn't start automatically. this way you will dump to a shell login and can play with 'startxfce4', which is what I do. or b) you could install other dm's alongside gdm. try xdm or wdm. There is a way to specify which one is the default dm to use, though that escapes me at the moment and I don't have one installed to figure it out with. look in the /etc/init.d/*dm file of choice and you should be able to figure out where that is set. A
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