On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 19:01:11 +0100 Martin Read <zen75...@zen.co.uk> wrote:
> If you aren't using a GUI, or your choice of GUI on Debian uses a > traditional window manager (and doesn't use gdm3 or lightdm as its X > display manager if it even has one) rather than being one of the > "desktop environments", My research tells me that for Xfce, LXDE, Openbox, JWM, dwm, IceWM and the like, if you run without lightdm, whether because it was never installed or because you rename it or put an exit high in its config file, you simply boot to CLI, from which you can run startx as long as your .xinitrc has the invocation to your desired window manager/desktop environment. If you're worried about security and someone getting a command prompt by killing X, then you can invoke it like this, as somebody pointed out on this list: startx;exit One piece of packagemanship that bothers me intensely is that apt-get install lxde installs lightdm. That is soooo unnecessary, especially because lxde is a lightweight product. SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- 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/20140907141607.227eb...@mydesq2.domain.cxm
