[NBLUG/talk] Too little memory on my laptop (40MB) - continued after a total re-install.

[Mr. Jan Hearthstone]

  Somehow I had to re-install, and I decided to do
without any display manager (xdm, gdm), arguing that
"xinit" would provide me with an "xterm" to call forth
any wm I desired. Wrong! I installed ~/.xinitrc and
~/.xsession with "exec fluxbox" (I even tried
/usr/bin/fluxbox - nodifference) as the last line, but
it never happened.
  If I use "startx", I always get the resources
hogging xfce4 that I cannot get rid of, and
"update-alternatives --config x-window-manager"
doesn't even list it! It doesn't matter if I designate
"fluxbox" as the default, even xdm starts with xfce4
only!
  I ended up with deleting the ~/.xinitrc and the
~/.xsession (as it was originally). 
  Any insights?
  Thanks, Hearthstone.

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