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Re: btw: gnome desktop manager



Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 04/28/07 07:49, 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

That shouldn't break anything.  (Unless you use Eeeevil Aptitude.)

Many of us have been display managerless, The Way God Intended, for
many years.


Although most recently He has told me to use Debian Sid in a multi-seat configuration, necessitating them again, gdm specifically, very successfully BTW:
uname -a:
Linux debian 2.6.21-sd046 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Apr 28 04:02:43 CDT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Hugo


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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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