Hi, Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> writes:
> a somewhat tangential question, since in any case Gnome is an important > part of our system: Can we make it easier for a user to get rid of > everything Gnome? > > Personally I chose the XFCE desktop (but might also be happy with > others, such as KDE or LXQT), but I think GDM is still required as the > login manager. > > So here are a list of questions: > Is it possible to choose a desktop/graphical environment for which I > would not need GDM and all the complications this is pulling in? Not exactly what your are asking, but I still want to put this out there. You do not need a login manager at all. You can just log into the tty and start the window manager of your choice (i3 in my case) using the `startx' command (produced by xorg-start-command-xinit). Tomas -- There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
