(Brent, sorry for initially sending this to your private mail instead of the list, my mistake!)<br><br>Thanks to both of you for the kind replies!<br><br>Alright, having
learnt a bit more about the system, I was thinking this: I could just
run the standard GDM (long history, low dependencies), and then run
xmonad through it. However, I need to resolve how to get the system to
automatically run GDM after booting? Is there a config file I can hack
to accomplish this?<br>
<br>Thanks in advance!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Brent Yorgey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:byorgey@seas.upenn.edu">byorgey@seas.upenn.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:50:17AM +0200, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:<br>
> Dear all,<br>
><br>
> I am rather new to "manually" setting up a desktop environment, so please<br>
> bear with me.<br>
><br>
> I would like to be able to boot my system straight into xmonad, without<br>
> having to have any particular desktop environment installed. Currently, I<br>
> run LXDE and am able to choose xmonad as my wm, but LXDE is of course still<br>
> present, and I would like to be rid of it. My goal is a "clean system" based<br>
> only around xmonad and any other packages I need to get it running.<br>
><br>
> How could I accomplish this? What config files would I have to fiddle with<br>
> to get it running, and what other packages would I need apart from<br>
> xmonad?<br>
<br>
</div></div>This is what I do. I just run xmonad from my ~/.xinitrc which is run<br>
by X on startup. I do not have a display manager running; when my<br>
computer boots up it just drops me into a shell prompt, and from there I<br>
type 'startx' which starts X and xmonad. Using a display manager so you<br>
boot directly into xmonad is not too hard either.<br>
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-Brent<br>
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