On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 03:59:40PM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > Folks: > > Typically, when Debian installs a GUI environment (GNOME, XFCE4, etc.), > it also installs lightdm or some other X session manager.
Nitpick: xdm is the X display manager. The X session is something completely different. You usually want the latter. > This takes up > memory, and isn't something I really need (as far as I know). Instead, > I'm perfectly happy to have Debian give me a console login prompt, and > then I issue startx. > > Is there any liability to removing lightdm or similar? Doing startx is a perfectly valid way of living. Memory usage is a weak argument, though. While "my" xdm takes 2.2 M resident memory, Xorg itself is already at 47,6. Firefox (just one of its eight kraken arms!) goes to a whopping 263 M, that's like one hundred times xdm! And it still has other seven arms left. And I start it in a very restricted mode, no javascript for you today. Gnome? No idea. But there are other reasons to do startx. Cheers -- t
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