Frank McCormick:
> Andrei POPESCU:
> > Frank McCormick:
> > > At this point it's just plain curiousity :) Seems to me GDM,
> > > while it does a good job takes up a lot of memory (I only have a
> > > gig) to just pick a window manager. Although at this point I guess
> > > GDM does more than that, allowing different users to log-in,
> > > handling security etc. But i am the only user of this machine, so
> > > a lot of those areas are of little or no concern to me.
> >
> > 1. Install nodm
> > 2. Change window manager/Desktop Environment with
> >
> > # update-alternatives --config x-session-manager
>
> At this point I am running SLIM...although I am told now it is
> unmaintained. How can that be if it's still in the repositories ?
>
> Anyway it requires a fair amount of config-ing...and much info
> necessary to get it running properly is not in the manual or even on
> the home website.
>
> I'll see how it goes..and will try nodm later, although if I have to
> update-alternatives every time I change wm...that would soon become a
> PITA :)
Yet it could be simpler than that. As an example, I'll show how I start
either Fluxbox or KDE.
The easiest way to disable GDM that I know of, is using sysv-rc-conf.
Uncheck gdm for all runlevels.
/usr/local/fluxbox-session has this startup script:
#! /bin/sh
/usr/bin/unclutter -idle 2 &
<other stuff to start> &
exec /usr/bin/fluxbox
/usr/local/kde-session has this startup script:
#! /bin/sh
<other arbitrary stuff to start> &
exec /usr/bin/startkde
/usr/local/bin/fb contains:
#! /bin/sh
startx /usr/local/fluxbox-session -- -dpi 96
/usr/local/bin/kde contains:
#! /bin/sh
startx /usr/local/kde-session -- -dpi 96
Of course, make all these files executable.
Now from the console, I start Fluxbox with the command 'fb'
or KDE with the command 'kde'.
You could write more scripts, each one starting its own set of programs
or commands.
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