Hi, On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 08:31:50PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I installed LXDE on a no-X, no-desktop virgin network Wheezy 64bit > install with non-free software allowed, and on the next boot it went > into lightdm. The only thing I could find that installed and required > lightdm was LXDE. I uninstalled LXDE, installed Xfce, installed > whatever bestows startx, and bang, X from the CLI command line, no *dm > needed.
I think you should learn to use aptitude to look-into Debian's resources. Here are the answer by running aptitude. > 1) Am I correct that Debian's LXDE package installs lightdm? It depends on what yopu mean by "LXDE package". If you mean "task-lxde-desktop", yes it is "depends". If you mean "lxde", practically yes since it is "recommends". > 2) Does that come from the LXDE project, or is it a Debian thing? Homepage: https://launchpad.net/lightdm http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LightDM/ > 3) Is there a way to turn off LXDE's install of lightdm? If you chose "lxde", you install without recommends. That is easy with aptitude and apt-gey can do that via command line. Read the manual pages of them. > The whole reason I'm switching from Xubuntu to Debian is to get away > from both Plymouth and *dm. Fortunately, I find LXDE desireable, but no > way do I find it necessary. You can go less with bare Openbox window manager :-) Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140623145237.GA14440@goofy
