> From: Lisi [mailto:lisi.re...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:32 PM > > On Monday 31 August 2009 23:43:56 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Monday 31 August 2009 15:59:08 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > ***I would be very grateful for help in speeding up the boot > process, and > > > suggestions for a suitable DE or WM.*** > > > > Thanks very much for the advice and suggestions so far. Much > appreciated. > > Next installment: > > I have installed Lenny, Icewm and idesk. I shall follow Andrei's > suggestions > and also install nullmailer. These saved about 6 seconds on the > previous > test (which was building up too much rubbish, so I started again). > > Now I need a desktop manager. I have been looking at the alternatives. > I > would prefer auto-login to be available, and would like to pull in as > few > dependencies as possible. > > Entrance seems to fill the bill. _But_ Googling appears to suggest > that it > might be difficult to install on Debian. > > Experiences, opinions and suggestions would be very gratefully > received. > > Lisi
If you want auto-login, and fast startup with minimal dependencies, then skip the display manager, change your getty to rungetty and configure it to autologin, and add startx to your ~/.bash_profile. Then of course you put whatever window manager you want into ~/.xinitrc. -- Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
