Re: Great Debian experience

[berenger.morel@neutralite.org]

Le 19.03.2014 15:03, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
> On Wednesday 19 March 2014 11:25:44 Stephen Powell wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:31:46 -0400 (EDT), Steve Litt wrote:
> > > ...
> > > I also unchecked the Debian Desktop selection.
> > > ...
> > > Then I did the following:
> > >
> > > apt-get install xfce4 xfce4-goodies
> > > apt-get install synaptic
> > > apt-get install iceweasel
> > > ...
> >
> > I realize that this is too late for this install, but maybe it will
> > help you next time.  Also, maybe it will help someone else.  Try
> > this.  When you get the initial boot screen from the Debian
> > installer, press F1 for help, then at the boot prompt type:
> >
> >    expert desktop=xfce
> >
> > and press Enter.  Do *not* uncheck the desktop selection in the
> > tasksel menu during installation.  The installer will install the
> > xfce desktop.
> >
> > There's more than one way to do this
>
> Choosing XFCE from the beginning has already been suggested.    I
> suggested choosing expert install and then choosing XFCE before being
> taken back to the ordinary installation.  This also has the advantage
> that you don't have to type startx every time you log in, because you
> get a desktop manager.

But one does not need a desktop manager to not have to type startx.
A few lines in the good file does the same:

$cat ~/.bash_profile
if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && [ `tty` == /dev/tty1 ]
then
	startx
fi

( ~/.profile also works, if you do not have the .bash_profile)
Those lines are pretty useful, in my opinion. If you only need the 
computer for a quick task ( or to not start xorg, it happens ), just go 
to a different TTY, xorg won't be started ( and so things will be faster 
). But since you probably want xorg most of the time... it will be 
started automatically each time you log with your regular user on TTY1 
;)
In my opinion, this script saves a lot of kitten's lives by making 
systems less bloated :) ( ok, the thing it can not do, is starting 
automatically your session. but it could probably be made with some 
/etc/inittab tinkering. For example, adding "-a myuser" to a getty. )