On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 07:53:37PM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: > =( Bummer! > > There must be a way to get what you want, although I honestly do not know > enough about systemd to help you out. Like yourself, I am more familiar with > the System 5 way of doing things. > > Wish I could be more help.
Thanks, I appreciate the sentiment and willingness to help. I actually got a lot of useful advice from a number of folks here, and have found the various discussions to be quite interesting. If it wasn't for systemd, that might not have happened! I actually don't mind dropping gnome. It does depend on systemd by defacto, and is bulky. I did try xfce in a fresh install of debian jessie, and found it gave me speech when I rebooted after the install. It also is more snappy than gnome, and felt more like gnome2 for me, which I didn't mind. This gives me hope that I should find xfce useable in devuan. The only thing I'm not sure about is the slim login manager. I was able to get speech in the graphical login manager debian jessie provides when installing the xfce task, but I didn't investigate what that manager is. I did plan to do another fresh install of debian jessie in a virtual machine, install slim (if it is there), and see what happens, but I didn't get around to that yet. In the worst case scenario, I should be able to disable the graphical login manager from starting in devuan, and should be able to just use startx from a text console when I need the GUI. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-mana...@eu.org _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
