On Tue 12 Aug 2014 at 09:15:59 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, Brian wrote: > > > xserver-xorg-core and xinit are insufficient by themselves. To have > > startx bring up X you need /usr/bin/X, which is in the xserver-xorg > > package. But xserver-org depends on one of xserver-xorg-video-* and > > one of xserver-xorg-input-* (I use xserver-xorg-input-evdev). > > Maybe, I should clarify: when I say I installed xserver-xorg-core, > etc,, I don't mean I installed just THAT package. I let apt-get > installed the dependencies, too; but not the recommends. The latter I > did manually as needed.
The clarification is welcome but I had worked out that is what you did. As it happens, xserver-xorg-core doesn't have any recommended packages and xserver-org (and the other packages mentioned) really are needed for a functional X. > > Your notes are amongst the best I have seen on this topic of a minimal > > desktop install. My objective has sometimes been a little different > > and I've dispensed with the standard system utilities and got one or > > two of its packages later. > > Thanks. But what I posted is a mere outline of my install notes, > a synopsis. The actual notes themselves run the front and back of 4 or 5 > 8.5 x 11 inch pages in tiny handwritten print. They include the complete > process, everything that was installed, the order that it was > installed, and any problems and how they were rectified. > > I've yet to transcribe them to a more readable form -- even my > printing is barely legible. ;-) The outline I posted here was done for > someone on this list last year who wanted to do the same thing I did, > but I sent it privately to him. It's a good synopsis then. I hope what Andrei picked up on and what I criticised leads you to improve on it. > > Also, it can quite nice for users not to have type 'startx' and nodm > > is a lightweight solution to that. > > I decide not to go that route as a safeguard. If something went wrong > setting up X and the GUI, I could reboot and be at a working terminal > to fix it or try something else. After everything was finished, I just > left it instead of booting directly to the GUI. I don't reboot that > often. I just run the system 24/7 only turning off the monitor when > I'm finished for the day. So, typing startx two or three times a year > is not inconvenient. ;-) My users were expecting a 400 GBP SMART TV. They got a thin client with a mini keyboard and a bash script using dialog. Having them not type 'startx' every time it was switched on was a concession. Why go looking for trouble? Must keep the troops happy. :) (Sometimes a technical solution to a social problem works). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/12082014173016.e55696bc2...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
