On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 23:52:37 +0900 Osamu Aoki <osamu_aoki_h...@nifty.com> wrote:
> 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. Cool. I'll do that next weekend. I've used apt-get or synaptic until now, but obviously I need finer granularity. > 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/ ROFLMAO, I need to improve my English (which is my native language). What I *meant* to say was "does the *dependency* come from lxde, or does the *dependency* come from Debian. > > > 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. I'll be doing that next weekend. > > > 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 :-) If you like Openbox, you'll love my ultimate destination: dwm! But when I'm first installing a computer and getting all the functionalities working, including hundreds of home-grown shellscripts, python, perl, ruby and lua programs, I like a user interface that gives me more context. Later, when my interface is merely a way to run programs, I switch to something like Openbox or dwm. Thanks Osamu, SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- 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/20140623121503.5c23d100@mydesk
