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Re: [trinity-users] Running GUI programs as root in 14

From: Felix Miata <mrmazda@...>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 20:15:07 -0400
Lisi Reisz composed on 2015-08-14 00:49 (UTC+0100):

> I would expect you to be able to just uninstall the dm (gdm3? kdm?), boot 
> into the command line, log-in as whomsoever you wish, and startx.  ISTR that 
> you can put the GUI you want to boot into from startx in an x conf file 
> (.xsession?  probably not).  I did this once, but it was ages ago and my 
> memory is fading.

In Jessie it here appears that to make TDM the default DM all that's required
is to include the following as the only content in
/etc/X11/default-display-manager:

	/opt/trinity/bin/tdm
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