log in desktop environment without display manager

[LBrocato]

I using Fedora 34 I  want to to delete the display manager so that i can put my username and password in terminal  to start my cinnamon desktop. How do i go about doing this?

[Guest]

Without a display manager you can't login into a Desktop. You should be able to use systemctl(idk if this exists on Fedora) and prevent it from running on startup so you land into a Console (Terminal) If you then want to get into a desktop then simply type sudo gdm on terminal.

[LBrocato]

6 minutes ago, WickedThunder86 said:

Without a display manager you can't login into a Desktop. You should be able to use systemctl(idk if this exists on Fedora) and prevent it from running on startup so you land into a Console (Terminal) If you then want to get into a desktop then simply type sudo gdm on terminal.

I was thinking something like starx

 

[Guest]

55 minutes ago, LBrocato said:

I was thinking something like starx

 

It should work but I am not sure.

[Sauron]

You can use your bash_profile to automatically start your desktop environment on login

[10leej]

On 7/30/2021 at 12:54 AM, LBrocato said:

I using Fedora 34 I  want to to delete the display manager so that i can put my username and password in terminal  to start my cinnamon desktop. How do i go about doing this?

The right way:

 

you need to disable the display manager (don't remove it)

 

systemctl disable displaymanagername.service

 

then install xinit

 

sudo dnf install xorg-x11-xinit

 

then using a text editor make a file in your users /home directory  called .xinitrc then add this line

exec cinnamon-session

 

then add this to your .bashrc
 

if [ -z "${DISPLAY}" ] && [ "${XDG_VTNR}" -eq 1 ]; then
	exec startx
fi

 

sources

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xinit

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/xorg-x11-xinit

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Cinnamon#Starting_Cinnamon_manually

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Display_manager

 

been doing this for years with window managers, all my autostarts are handled post bash login via .bashrc because .bash_profile is read and executed before user config is loaded meaning there's no garauntee of X server leaving a log behind if it crashes on launch.