On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 05:13:46PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 15:16:21 -0400 > Haines Brown <hai...@histomat.net> wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 01:57:58PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 13:01:14 -0400 > > > Haines Brown <hai...@histomat.net>, "To:dng"@lists.dyne.org, > > > "Cc:Bcc:"@tupac2.dyne.org wrote:
> > Aptitude tells me that xfce4 and these specific utilities are not > > installed. > > I suspect that aptitude is wrong, or you are interpreting it wrong. But > anyway... No I'm interpreting it correctly. The mystery won't be solved because I reinstalled. > Rereading your original post: Do you want to not have a Display Manager > such as lightdm, kdm, gdm etc, or do you want your computer not to have > X at all? If the latter, just deinstall X. If the former, you need to > find your display manager, based on ps axjf. The aim is to boot to a console prompt, log in as root, install xorg and fluxbox. That gives me X and a window manager but no desktop environment. At present I get a log in prompt and can log in as user in console, but for some reason root log in not working. I suppose that when I provided a password I mistyped. > Anyway, luckily for you, you're on Devuan with sysvinit, so I'm pretty > sure almost any way that you could disable plymouth and lightdm would > bring you to CLI, from which you could run startx which would work with > a properly configured ~/.xinitrc. You describe a complicated scenario. I've never had to go through all that because I've always simply done expert install, avoided installing a desktop environment, and then in console install xorg and fluxbox. Over the years never had a problem. Thanks, Haines _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
