Comments on: Fluxbuntu (cntd)

By: David Laban (via Facebook)

David Laban (via Facebook) — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:46:00 +0000

try X :1orstartx — :1or /etc/init.d/xdm stopIn all honesty though: running a Unix-like operating system with no network. What's the point? You might as well use DOS.

By: Stuart Cuthbertson (via Facebook)

Stuart Cuthbertson (via Facebook) — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:07:00 +0000

Well, I think (because aptitude is so clever about dependencies) I don't have kde-desktop or gnome-desktop packages either. Does that explain my symptoms better? ;pI can't run startx because I have an X session going already in the 7th VT. Can I close it somehow? I will try adding a new user, though, at least I can do that from tty1…

By: David Laban (via Facebook)

David Laban (via Facebook) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:08:00 +0000

The way I always understood it: GDM and KDM are really login-managers: they hand-off to the desktop environment as soon as a successful login happens. You can run a successful KDE session without kdm if you run startx, and then startkde. The only thing that's missing if you do that is the "shutdown" and "restart" commands on the logout menu.I don't think the display manager should affect *box*recites his freenode #kde mantra* Have you tried it with a new user?