On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> wrote: > > True. But how to know that? I'd need to do a detailed study of the > ramified dependencies of gdm and gdm3. All I really wanted was to replace > gdm3 with gdm. Aptitude and apt are supposed to be there to keep me from > having to understand the dependency tree in all its gory detail. > > The "." trick does the exploration for me, if I know to use it. It's in the > documentation, but it's not immediately obvious that it solves this kind of > problem. > > I hope that reporting my experiences here will raise consciousness of the > tissue, and in the future others will read this thread and learn how to > improve their user experience with Debian.
Wouldn't it be better to keep gdm3 and customize it? http://www.khattam.info/howto-change-gdm-3-theme-and-wallpaper-2010-11-14.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTi=h2ugZEhHFKRWM7DsQB-S3AfeDjK14=p3w1...@mail.gmail.com
