Starting XFce4 without kdm or gdm

[Lionel Laratte]

I am a newbie but I moved to Debian and found it to be relatively easy.
There's lots of info on the web (I just Google my questions) and chances
are somebody else had the same question.  Try Libranet.

Lionel

-----Original Message-----
From: xfce-bounces at xfce.org [mailto:xfce-bounces at xfce.org] On Behalf Of
Paul M. Bucalo
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 11:41 AM
To: xfce list
Subject: Re: Starting XFce4 without kdm or gdm


On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 10:40, Atte André Jensen wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:55:55 -0500, Paul M. Bucalo
> <pmbuc at pmbenterprises.com> wrote:
> 
> > Up until this point I have either used kdm or gdm to login to 
> > XFce-4, depending on whether I'm using Mandrake or Red Hat. Is there

> > any other Desktop Manager I could use that's lighter, but would 
> > still allow for a user/password login?
> >
> > Appreciate any advise and experiences. I really want to trim the 
> > memory usage down to the bare minimum in getting XFce-4 up and 
> > running.
> 
> Sorry for not saying this the first time around, but IMHO you 
> shouldn't
> use Mandrake if you care that much about trimming and (as it appears
in 
> another post of yours) don't care about looks.

<big sigh of understanding>

Yeah...I know. I'm already in the process of moving away from Mandrake.
My hardware is not cutting-edge or state-of-the-art. The hassles that
come from using an O/S that is being released just a little faster than
the bridge burns behind it is really taking its toll on me. I don't have
the time to fix what gets released broken or is too aggressive for what
I am running. It's great for what it portends to be, but I'm not sure
it's the best learning tool for a beginners. There's something to be
said for a simple distro that works in most all cases and looks
"plain-Jane", but highly configurable. :0)

If I was more experienced right now, I would consider Debian for its
stability. I'm not one of those that needs the latest and the greatest
all the time, especially on a production machine. Maybe in time.:0)

However, I found that in disabling 'acpi' on my laptop, I was able to
use kdm to run XFce-4 without the instability problems of before, though
I still have the KDE overhead I don't need. That's a start. I can also
always go back to running 'startxfce4' at the shell prompt after booting
up. I still have some choices until I know what I'm doing in
reconfiguring the way X comes up. :0)

Paul

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