Hi [2019-01-05 17:09] Caio Barros <caio.bar...@gmail.com> > > Em sex, 4 de jan de 2019 às 19:42, Markus Wichmann <nullp...@gmx.net> > escreveu: > > > > On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 02:17:12PM -0200, Caio Barros wrote: > > > That's it! Yes, I'm unfotunately still runing a display manager: > > > lightdm. I'm slowly getting rid of the bloat [...] > > > > It was never my intention to advise you of how bloated or unbloated your > > system can be. To be honest, I don't know if having a redundant shell > > session hang around is more bloated than an additional program in the > > background. I refuse to run a DM because I have had bad experiences with > > those in the past (namely, that the default X11 configuration would > > crash the machine, but on Debian there was no easy way of preventing the > > system from starting it with a DM installed). But you do you. Whatever > > makes you happy. > > > > Honestly, starting from console and typing in "startx" brings back > > memories of starting up my 486 and typing in "win". Makes the experience > > feel a bit unevolved. > > > Oh, I din't tried to remove the DM because of your advice. That was > something I tried before asking for help and because I wanted it. > > Personally, I feel that without a DM I understand my system better In > that sense a DM is bloat to me and not so much because of memory usage > or redundancy of sessions. Although I too have a somewhat nostalgic > feeling when typing a command to load the window manager, I don't mind > at all automating it, but for that a DM is not necessary.
If you are interested in something very light that saves you some typing while still lets you choose sessions (if you happen to have more than one), TDM[0] has been working quite well for me. Cheers, Silvan [0] https://github.com/dopsi/console-tdm
