Hello Danny, it has been ages, but after almost one year I have come back to trying a configuration with XFCE, but without GDM. (Actually building mutter and so on ever so often is not a huge pain point, mainly annoying.) Without success...
Actually XFCE provides the binary startxfce4, which I suppose advantageously replaces startx to do what its name indicates. Am Sat, Jun 14, 2025 at 11:11:35PM +0200 schrieb Danny Milosavljevic: > (modify-services (remove (lambda (service) > (or > (eq? (service-kind service) sddm-service-type) > (eq? (service-kind service) gdm-service-type))) > %desktop-services) Thanks for the detailed explanation! I tried this and also a simple (modify-services (delete gdm-service-type %desktop-services)) and then stumbled upon: Am Sat, Jun 14, 2025 at 04:34:02PM +0200 schrieb Liliana Marie Prikler: > However, the basic > configuration also has the set-xorg-configuration "service", which will > often inadvertently pull in GDM (see [1]). (thanks, Liliana!). After also removing set-xorg-configuration, apparently GDM was gone for good, but I entered a boot loop: typed my password to unlock the disk, the Grub menu appeared, it started with the default entry, then the machine would reboot. Could this be linked to the new mechanism where one types the disk encryption password only once? Or is it an unrelated problem? Luckily the Grub menu did appear, so I could boot into an older generation. Andreas
