Re: The "Oh, No..." error when gdm is trying to start

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Subject: Re: The "Oh, No..." error when gdm is trying to start
From: "Selim T. Erdogan" <selim@alumni.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 15:22:12 -0500
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Paul Johnson, 15.08.2012:
> 
> In the olden days, I'd just remove gdm and then run "startx" from the
> command line to start X11. But now, as far as I can tell, the Gnome
> system pre-supposes a session-managed display manager.

I run gnome with startx.  You need the gnome-session package installed
but you can remove gdm3, gnome and gnome-core.  

NB: This is on sid.  Make sure you check what else it says it might 
remove if you remove those packages.

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