[mythtv-users] MythTV without desktop manager

[Huaqing Zheng]

On 3/28/07, Luca Lucchesi <shacky83 at hotmail.it> wrote:

> I installed Ratpoison on a Debian unstable system, and in effect it is very
> fast...
> The only problem I have is that I had to install kdm too to start Ratpoison,
> and I don't understand if I can't do without kdm or gdm.
> How I can use Ratpoison and make it starting at the system boot without
> using kdm or gdm?

You don't need kdm to start ratpoison.  All you need is a .xsession file
that looks like:

#!/bin/sh
 exec ratpoison

Then run startx to start X and ratpoison.