On 02/13/18 01:10, François Patte wrote:
> light(dm) dm=Display Manager
>
> You could try sddm, kdm, or gdm?
I don't want to do that: I dislike gnome or kde and do not want to
introduce a lot of dependancies....
For future reference....
This is what one gets from adding sddm to a pure GNOME system.
[egreshko@f27gq ~]$ sudo dnf install sddm
[sudo] password for egreshko:
Last metadata expiration check: 1:18:21 ago on Tue 13 Feb 2018 03:31:03 AM CST.
Dependencies resolved.
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing:
sddm x86_64 0.15.0-1.fc27 fedora 611 k
Installing dependencies:
desktop-backgrounds-compat noarch 27.0.0-1.fc27 fedora 18 k
Transaction Summary
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Install 2 Packages
Total download size: 629 k
Installed size: 1.5 M
Is this ok [y/N]: N
Operation aborted.
So, not a whole lot of dependencies.
Plus, dnf has the "erase" function. Therefore, in the case of troubleshooting
you
can erase what you've installed to remove unneeded/unwanted packages.
I solved the problem but I am still wondering why this issue hapenned:
Good.
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