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Re: Q: Wheezy preseed -- How to define default display manager?



On Sun 24 Aug 2014 at 14:01:59 -0700, Snow Leopard wrote:

> Ok,
> 
> after hands off installation with answering the question "manually"
> -- I've installed "debconf-utils" and run some investigation
> 
> root# debconf-get-selections > /tmp/answers
> root# vi /tmp/answers
> 
> # Default display manager:
> # Choices: kdm, lightdm
> kdm     shared/default-x-display-manager        select  kdm
> lightdm shared/default-x-display-manager        select  kdm
> 
> well it looks like for all installed "display managers" we have to
> define "default-x-display-manager".
> 
> Hmm, it is not very elegant but does the job.

An alternative would be to have the file default-display-manager with
content '/usr/sbin/kdm' which gets copied to /target/etc/X11/ by a
late_command.


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