[murph1083]

Im doing a new Arch Install and I need to put a DE/WM on....Since Fluxbox is favorite I will be putting it on. But I dont want to use xdm, can i just get GDM from using pacman -S gdm?...I dont want gnome or KDE.

[Juan Pablo]

I currently use GDM with Fluxbox but no Gnome on Frugalware, which uses pacman, it works without problems

[mahlerfan]

Yeah I did fluxbox with gdm, it doesn't install all of gnome, just the display manager.

I went

pacman -S fluxbox
pacman -S gdm

You can then edit /etc/inittab to have the runlevel be x11 after booting, or add xdm to startup by editing /etc/rc.conf.

I also went

pacman -S rox
and I added rox pinboard to my .fluxbox/startup. Because well I find fluxbox nearly unusable with a file roller! And rox is fast and lightweight.

I can hardly think of anything faster than arch running fluxbox + rox, besides of course only using console login.

[macondo]

Originally Posted by murph1083

Im doing a new Arch Install and I need to put a DE/WM on....Since Fluxbox is favorite I will be putting it on. But I dont want to use xdm, can i just get GDM from using pacman -S gdm?...I dont want gnome or KDE.

Then you don't need gdm, just edit your .xinitrc, here's mine:

#!/bin/sh

xlockmore &
numlockx &
unclutter &

ratpoison (replace this with fluxbox)

save and exit
startx <Enter>

[Tutku]

I use Slim and i can prefer it to you.