On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 04:40:45PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Adrian von Bidder <avbidder@fortytwo.ch> writes: > > > On Thursday 03 February 2005 13.54, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > >> Having to tweak the alternative manually to something non executable but > >> existing requires insight knowledege into the alternatives system and > >> xfree86-common that a normal user wouldn't have. > > > > Wanting to disable the session manager is something that only a poweruser > > would do - and so I assume learning about update-alternatives or using > > x-session-manager in $HOME/.Xsession is something within easy reach of > > these powerusers. > > Why? Whats so uncommon with a user (or admin) that wan't neither the > bloaded Gnome Desktop nor the bloated KDE Desktop? > Nobody said that this is uncommon, but that this can already be achieved using standard methods. IMO there should be no alternatives "do-not-do-foo". Just don't use the programm if you don't like any of the provided alternatives. It's easy to modify .Xsession or the configure the system default in /etc/X11/Xsession.d for users typically requesting such a feature. BTW I don't see why anyone would not want a x-session-manager. I just remove all the things I don't want from my gnome-session with gnome-session-remove (like nautilus and gnome-panel) and even use the gnome-session-manager with ion. Gaudenz
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