2011/10/18 Ari Becker wickedpheo...@gmail.com:
If you don't want to use GNOME then you should remove the GNOME and GDM
packages.
Well, removing GNOME just to use a different desktop environment does
not sound like a good solution. After all, you might want to run GNOME
applications.
Omer,
Thanks, Ari (and also Oleg Goldshmidt).
As it happened, I installed SLiM (without removing Gnome packages) on
the laptop and it worked - enabled access to several desktops, XFCE
being one of them.
I think there was a dialog to select the default login manager during
installation.
Failed attempts:
If you don't want to use GNOME then you should remove the GNOME and GDM
packages.
Try installing SLiM instead as a login manager for XFCE.
Decenthttps://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SLiM
introductions http://slim.berlios.de/index.php are available, as is
the Debian
package information
I made a new installation of Debian Squeeze.
Debian installer, by default, installed Gnome.
I would like to economize on RAM usage, so I installed the packages of
XFCE.
However, after installation, I see in gdm's login screen no way to
switch desktops from Gnome to another desktop (such as KDE or
