If you don't want to use GNOME then you should remove the GNOME and GDM packages.
Try installing SLiM instead as a login manager for XFCE. Decent<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SLiM> introductions <http://slim.berlios.de/index.php> are available, as is the Debian package information <http://packages.debian.org/sid/slim>. Just remember to edit your /etc/inittab appropriately, i.e. make sure you boot to run-level 5 and load slim: x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >& /dev/null (copy-pasted from Slim documentation). so that you don't install slim and end up booting gdm anyways. -Ari Becker On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Omer Zak <w...@zak.co.il> wrote: > I made a new installation of Debian Squeeze. > Debian installer, by default, installed Gnome. > I would like to economize on RAM usage, so I installed the packages of > XFCE. > > However, after installation, I see in gdm's login screen no way to > switch desktops from Gnome to another desktop (such as KDE or XFCE). I > remember that there used to be such a dialog in the past. > > Currently, in the new installation, the gdm login screen has buttons > only for shutdown options and for turning on accessibility provisions. > > Can anyone please remind how to access the desktop switching dialog from > gdm's login screen (if possible at all)? > Which additional package/s do I need to install to get this dialog? > > Thanks, > --- Omer Zak > > > -- > The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by > the following formula: pi zz a > My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ > > My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. > They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which > I may be affiliated in any way. > WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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