On Thu, 5 Jun 2014 09:22:07 +0000 (UTC)
Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote:

> On 2014-06-05, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote:
> >
> > My best advice is to use one of the other xdm programs such as
> > lightdm which does not suffer from that problem.  Give lightdm a
> > try and you might find it superior to gdm3.  I did.
> >
> >   apt-get install lightdm
> >
> 
> I asked myself, "How do you change the default display manager?"
> because I didn't know how, having little know-how; first I suspected
> the modification might be made through the update-alternatives
> system, but apparently not.
> 
> dpkg-reconfigure gdm3
> 
> seems to be the way to do it from what I've read so far. Maybe there's
> more than one way to skin this cat (I love cats by the way and no
> actual animals were damaged or maligned writing this post).
> 
> 

There is. I've edited /etc/X11/default-display-manager in the past. I
believe reconfiguring any *dm that may be installed should offer the
choice of all of them.

-- 
Joe


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