On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote:
On Mar 24, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Tom H wrote:
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
Interesting. Is the presence and structure
Hello,
Tom H wrote:
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote:
Clearly I was wrong and we've returned to the days of editing
configuration files by hand as the preferred mode of system
administration. Such is life!
PS: I understand the argument that the
On 2011-03-24, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote:
Here's the trick:
aptitude install gdm
It will ask you if you want to remove gnome and gnome-desktop-
environment as well as gdm3. If you answer yes it will give you a
whole bunch of packages that will become newly unneeded.
On Mar 24, 2011, at 5:07 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote:
On 2011-03-24, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote:
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] .
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Remove the following packages:
1) gdm3
Install the following packages:
2)
On 2011-03-24, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote:
On Mar 24, 2011, at 5:07 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote:
--- SNIP ---
You should get the same result if you install in one shot:
aptitude install gdm fast-user-switch-applet
True. But how to know that? I'd need to do a detailed study of
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
On Mar 24, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Tom H wrote:
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
Interesting. Is the presence and structure of those configuration
files documented anywhere? Was this mentioned
On Mar 23, 2011, at 2:25 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
I tried installing gdm, which (as expected) wanted to replace gdm3
(which was fine with me) but it also wanted to delete a *whole*
*bunch* of other stuff as well. I have no idea if I need that other
stuff -- or am I just as well off without
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