Desktop/login and network managers that 100% don't depend on systemd ?

Matthew Vernon matthew at debian.org
Sun Jun 25 15:30:29 BST 2023


Hi,

On 24/06/2023 14:36, Ottavio Caruso wrote:

> One of the problems I have with this:
> https://wiki.debian.org/Init#Changing_the_init_system_-_on_a_running_system
> 
> is that it doesn't tell you that you are then left with a system with
> no user-friendly login, desktop and network managers.

That isn't the case, or at least certainly shouldn't be. Did you chose 
not to install libpam-elogind?

As the wiki page says, that's needed to "provide session management 
facilities, which you will likely need on any system running a desktop 
environment."

Regards,

Matthew



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