[wellylug] Window Managers from startx

[Richard Hector]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 01:21:46PM +1200, David Antliff wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Nick Jensen wrote:
> > OK, that sounds good. But will it still try to start KDE in the background?
> 
> It's been a while since i've used Debian on a *desktop* but I believe the
> best way to stop KDM starting is to either uninstall it, or remove the
> symlink from /etc/rc3.d/ - it's probably called S99kdm or something. That
> just leaves you with a normal console login, from which you can manually
> run 'startx'. However this won't work 'per-user' as it's a system setting.

My preference is to edit /etc/X11/default-display-manager - just make it
something bogus. Sticking a # in front of the kdm line works fine. That
way all installed display manager scripts start, decide they're not
default and give up.

I'm not sure that that's what Nick was asking for, though ...

Richard