On Thu, 5 Jun 2014 09:22:07 +0000 (UTC) Curt <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2014-06-05, Bob Proulx <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > My best advice is to use one of the other xdm programs such as > > lightdm which does not suffer from that problem. Give lightdm a > > try and you might find it superior to gdm3. I did. > > > > apt-get install lightdm > > > > I asked myself, "How do you change the default display manager?" > because I didn't know how, having little know-how; first I suspected > the modification might be made through the update-alternatives > system, but apparently not. > > dpkg-reconfigure gdm3 > > seems to be the way to do it from what I've read so far. Maybe there's > more than one way to skin this cat (I love cats by the way and no > actual animals were damaged or maligned writing this post). > >
There is. I've edited /etc/X11/default-display-manager in the past. I believe reconfiguring any *dm that may be installed should offer the choice of all of them. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
