[arch-general] moving away from gnome

mike cloaked mike.cloaked at gmail.com
Sun Feb 26 11:57:18 EST 2012


On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Andrea Crotti
<andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Would it not be easier to switch to KDM or one of the other login
>> managers rather than use GDM if you have moved away from Gnome?
>>
>
> Is kdm in kde-workspace-base?
> If yes it also has quite a lot of dependencies which I don't really need.
> And actually I think I can survive very well without any login manager.
> I just need to set up correctly my .xinitrc, and then give on e startx every
> time I reboot
> my machine (so every 3-4 weeks).
>
> With ck-lauch-session I solved the policykit issues so I don't see what else
> I'm missing not
> using a login manager..

It's a free choice!  Just that I use KDM and it works fine so made the
suggestion - but if you can work without a login manager and it gives
you what you need that is fine too.

-- 
mike c


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