How do I start an X session for Ubuntu 12.10

Asked by John Lethco

I'm using Ubuntu 12.10. I want to use the X window manager and xterm only. When I login I get the Unity & dashboard ... how can I change this to standard X session ?

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N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said :
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I don't understand the question. Sorry.

What exactly you want to achieve ?

Ubuntu 12.10 is hard integrated with Unity - Dash .. etc..

Maybe you mean you want to disable LightDM ? (Display Manager) and start the X server manually ? (with startx command) , that is what you mean ?

Thank you.

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John Lethco (john-lethco) said :
#2

I think you do understand ... I don't care about Unity, Dash, etc ...

I want to use X windows Display Manager (start the X server, preferably automatic & default behavior).

Then have the ability to start an xterminal running a BASH shell (preferably using right click menu on the root screen).

I'm thinking of removing the Ubuntu 12.10 Desktop version and going with the Server version ... maybe this will do what I want?

Thx

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N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said :
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The server Edition has not any Desktop Environment.

Is a Terminal (Console) only and should use like that.

If you want a simple (so simple) desktop environment , you can install the server edition and then install a simple window manager only (not even desktop environment ) like OpenBox .

$ sudo apt-get install openbox

or

you can install Lubuntu . It has a very simple and lightweight desktop environment (LXDE) and openbox is the window manager.

Lubuntu 12.10 can be found here => http://lubuntu.net/taxonomy/term/226

Give it a try.

Thanks

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samuel (samuel-h) said :
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how do mean automatic and default behaviour? The default behaviour is to start your desktop environment (unity), if you want just a console then press ctrl+alt+f1, this is not a xserver, and is only a text based console.

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