[arch-general] moving away from gnome

[Calvin Morrison]

On 26 February 2012 11:56, Jesse Juhani Jaara <jesse.jaara at gmail.com> wrote:

> sunnuntai, 26. helmikuuta 2012 16:39:31 Andrea Crotti kirjoitti:
> > Is kdm in kde-workspace-base?
> Yeh it is. kdebase-workspace is the correct name of the pkg tought
> > 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).
> There is slim which only depends on gtk2 (mayby some other minor libs
> needed
> by anyother gtk app too) and cdm which is a conole mode login manager :D
>

I suggest you just use your tty. once you login, just run xinit.

it works fantastically for me :-)