On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 08:16:32AM -0500, john wrote: > On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:45:07 +0100 > Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote: > > =Use another display manager ;). I still try to fix some GNOME stuff > =myself, but I guess it's not worse the effort. The best thing to do IMO > =is to be on the look-out for a complete GNOME replacement. Since I'm > not =blind, I simply could switch to Xfce, but I e.g. still need > Evolution to =access my emails and I already have one Linux install > where Evolution is =unusable. I choose Linux because I want > versatility. GNOME upstream =started with a dependency to a borked > sound server and now the DE =already has a hard dependency to the > startup process (again upstream!). =I wonder what the DE has to do with > startup? Perhaps there's already an =inconsistency when using GNOME > with initd instead of systemd. Dunno! = > =2 Cents, > =Ralf > = > = > I run gnome3 with lightdm and openbox. It seems to work fine without > some of the bugginess of gdm3. I might add however, that this install > is running on a virtual machine (openbox) - I run it there in the hope > that it becomes useable (for me that is). > There is also slim, nodm, and gdm (at least in Squeeze, the old gdm is still available).
nodm doesn't give you a login screen -- it just logs in a particular user automatically. I use it for things like my MythTV frontend. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121120124134.ga17...@aurora.owens.net
