[wellylug] Window Managers from startx

[Richard Hector]

On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 09:18:35PM -0700, Ian Sterling wrote:
> 
> Debian, by default, tries to run KDE or GNOME if you've installed the
> desktop environment.  It also starts xdm (or kdm/gdm) in the default
> runlevel. Two things you'll need to do to change this:
> 
> sudo update-rc.d remove -f xdm (or kdm/gdm, whichever you have running)
> (This disables the login manager)

But which is a tad brutal if it's only temporary.

In fact it tries to start _all_ of xdm/kdm/gdm that are installed, but
they check for their own name in /etc/X11/default-display-manager before
they start, so just having none of them in there works quite nicely.

Richard