How to install LXDM instead of GDM3?
It looks like lxdm is not present in Debian wheezy; at least, it's not included in any packages according to the results of a package contents search. You may need to install it from source or from a third-party repository.
If you did install an alternate display manager via dpkg, however, you would want to run something like dpkg-reconfigure gdm3
to get a display-manager chooser.
Debian's display manager startup scripts look at the contents of /etc/X11/default-display-manager
to see whether they should run. If you install one manually, you will probably need to empty that file and add your own startup script.
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Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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I'm running Debian Wheezy and my default Display Manager is GDM3, and I would like to replace it with LXDM. The problem is that I'm trying to run
# apt-get install lxde
and it's not working, what am I doing wrong?My
/etc/apt/sources.list
is:deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot i386 DVD Binar$ deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian wheezy main deb-src http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib