Re: Suggestions for desktop manager: [was Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-30 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 05:20:06PM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: Kevin Ross wrote: snipped If you want auto-login, and fast startup with minimal dependencies, then skip the display manager, change your getty to rungetty and configure it to autologin, and add startx to your

Suggestions for desktop manager: [was Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-29 Thread Lisi
On Monday 31 August 2009 23:43:56 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 31 August 2009 15:59:08 Lisi Reisz wrote: ***I would be very grateful for help in speeding up the boot process, and suggestions for a suitable DE or WM.*** Thanks very much for the advice and suggestions so far. Much

RE: Suggestions for desktop manager: [was Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-29 Thread Kevin Ross
From: Lisi [mailto:lisi.re...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:32 PM On Monday 31 August 2009 23:43:56 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 31 August 2009 15:59:08 Lisi Reisz wrote: ***I would be very grateful for help in speeding up the boot process, and suggestions for a

Re: Suggestions for desktop manager: [was Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-29 Thread Preston Boyington
Kevin Ross wrote: snipped If you want auto-login, and fast startup with minimal dependencies, then skip the display manager, change your getty to rungetty and configure it to autologin, and add startx to your ~/.bash_profile. Then of course you put whatever window manager you want into

Re: Suggestions for desktop manager: [was Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-29 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 23:20:06 Preston Boyington wrote: Kevin Ross wrote: snipped If you want auto-login, and fast startup with minimal dependencies, then skip the display manager, change your getty to rungetty and configure it to autologin, and add startx to your ~/.bash_profile.

Re: Suggestions for desktop manager: [was Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 05:20:06PM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: Kevin Ross wrote: snipped If you want auto-login, and fast startup with minimal dependencies, then skip the display manager, change your getty to rungetty and configure it to autologin, and add startx to your

Re: Suggestions for desktop manager: [was Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-29 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 29 September 2009 23:20:06 Preston Boyington wrote: Kevin Ross wrote: snipped If you want auto-login, and fast startup with minimal dependencies, then skip the display manager, change your getty to rungetty and