• bolle
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Topic: How can i disable GDM without counteracting other problems?

Alright
SO i just tried disabling GDM from the services list, and it wouldnt let me boot, so i went into a virtual console and started gdm from there..
BUTT

How can i dsiable GDM completely ( i dont want the memory hogging of it )
Without disabling oblogout, etc, etc.

Thanks guys smile

Last edited by bolle (2010-08-28 23:06:06)

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Re: How can i disable GDM without counteracting other problems?

Let's see:  GDM = Gnome Display Manager

[face-palm]  I kinda think you need this.

http://linux.die.net/man/1/gdm

Or something else like it . . . (of course, there are alternatives) ... I wouldn't delete it until, you have another app. in place.

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Re: How can i disable GDM without counteracting other problems?

You could try using SLiM instead of GDM. Look in the link I gave you in your other topic to see how-to.

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Re: How can i disable GDM without counteracting other problems?

I don't know if oblogout can work without GDM. There are other reboot/shutdown scripts you can use though.

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Re: How can i disable GDM without counteracting other problems?

vrkalak wrote:

Let's see:  GDM = Gnome Display Manager

[face-palm]  I kinda think you need this.

http://linux.die.net/man/1/gdm

Or something else like it . . . (of course, there are alternatives) ... I wouldn't delete it until, you have another app. in place.


not a facepalm at all.
i never use gdm with linux mint, or ubuntu and debian.
all gdm is is a login manager, but lots of programs support it,such as oblogout..

if i remove  it all i will get is a command line login,w hich i can then type startx and go to openbox from there.

and ill try that out guys! thanks!

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Re: How can i disable GDM without counteracting other problems?

anonymous wrote:

I don't know if oblogout can work without GDM.

Yes, it can, at least with slim. Having slim installed, the openbox-logout script is under /bin , and working well.

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Re: How can i disable GDM without counteracting other problems?

Are you saying oblogout works with slim or openbox-logout works with slim?

They're each separate programs though I do know its easy to edit openbox-logout to work without GDM.

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Re: How can i disable GDM without counteracting other problems?

Oops, yes it's openbox-logout. Oblogout doesn't work with slim.

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Re: How can i disable GDM without counteracting other problems?

So i deleted GDM and used openbox-logout,and  it wrked fine, but after i restarted it kept looping back and restarting itself :l

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Re: How can i disable GDM without counteracting other problems?

bolle wrote:

So i deleted GDM and used openbox-logout,and  it wrked fine, but after i restarted it kept looping back and restarting itself :l

That's exactly why I quit screwing with GDM. I wish they'd replace it with something else though for the sake of #! being lightweight. Just have SLiM, dash and Swiftfox instead of GDM, Bash and IceWeasel.

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