Carla Schroder wrote: <snip>
Hmm. Yeah, you're right. I'm not crazy about using a display manager, because they get in my way, and don't provide a way to log out of X to the console. Maybe scripting something using xinit would be a cleaner way to begin.
Have fun scripting a better startx. I'm afraid that I won't be too much help there. However, I'm not sure I entirely understand your complaint with a login manager (which I assume you're referring to, ie, xdm or gdm, etc.). I realize that generally they start at boot and when you log out of your X session then it takes you back to the login manager. However, I've always bee able to get to a real console via ctrl-alt-f[1-6]. Once there, if you really don't want the login manager to run, you can always stop the service. In gentoo, all you do is /etc/init.d/xdm stop. I'm sure it's almost exactly the same for other distros too. With that said, if you still find that too cumbersome, have fun writing your startx :)
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