Can't get rid of wdm

**Caeru_Lean** · May 7th, 2014

I have a minimal installation of Ubuntu 14.04 with dwm as window manager.
The display manager wdm was installed as a dependency and is launched at every boot. But I want a manual login to X with startx (.xinitrc is configured with exec dwm).

I disabled the service wdm using bum, but when I launch startx I got the error message

Only root wants to run wdm
The same error message appears after removing wdm completely with its dependencies.
I also modified in vain the parameter splash quiet of /etc/default/grub to text.

I used to setup Debian and ArchLinux systems without having this problem. Is it specific to Ubuntu? What is the proper way to resolve my issue? I hope there won't be a confusion concerning the couple wdm/dwm ...

**bapoumba** · May 7th, 2014

Although old, may be here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1053814 ?
Looks like the link is dead, probably was something close to : http://dwm.suckless.org/

Now I do not see anything related to wdm as a dependency to dwm : http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/dwm

**ibjsb4** · May 7th, 2014

I also went down a couple of levels and not seeing where dwm depends on wdm. Could you have a ppa messing with you?

**bapoumba** · May 7th, 2014

Originally Posted by ibjsb4

I also went down a couple of levels and not seeing where dwm depends on wdm.

Did that too, and there is no wdm-named package

**Caeru_Lean** · May 16th, 2014

Thank you for your replies.

May be I installed the complete Xorg meta package.
I don't remember, but I did a fresh minimal install in the meantime.
Everything works fine now.