B.Hoffmann wrote: [...]
I ended up removing gdm and it starts fine now with startx straight into gnome! Will probably leave it at that and not reinstall gdm, sort of reminds me of Slackware.
Just make sure that you purge the screwed-up configurations files, i.e.
run "dpkg --purge gdm". (A normal uninstall will leave all configuration
files in place.) Otherwise you might run into trouble again if you ever
decide to reinstall gdm, and at that time you might not remember anymore
what the problem was, what you changed, etc.
Regards,
Florian