RE: Suggestions for desktop manager: [was Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]
> From: Lisi [mailto:lisi.reisz@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:32 PM
>
> On Monday 31 August 2009 23:43:56 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Monday 31 August 2009 15:59:08 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > ***I would be very grateful for help in speeding up the boot
> process, and
> > > suggestions for a suitable DE or WM.***
> >
> > Thanks very much for the advice and suggestions so far. Much
> appreciated.
>
> Next installment:
>
> I have installed Lenny, Icewm and idesk. I shall follow Andrei's
> suggestions
> and also install nullmailer. These saved about 6 seconds on the
> previous
> test (which was building up too much rubbish, so I started again).
>
> Now I need a desktop manager. I have been looking at the alternatives.
> I
> would prefer auto-login to be available, and would like to pull in as
> few
> dependencies as possible.
>
> Entrance seems to fill the bill. _But_ Googling appears to suggest
> that it
> might be difficult to install on Debian.
>
> Experiences, opinions and suggestions would be very gratefully
> received.
>
> Lisi
If you want auto-login, and fast startup with minimal dependencies, then
skip the display manager, change your getty to rungetty and configure it to
autologin, and add startx to your ~/.bash_profile. Then of course you put
whatever window manager you want into ~/.xinitrc.
-- Kevin
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