I turned my back on 'Modern Desktop Linux' a few years ago and haven't looked back since. In my .profile I have: # if logging into tty6 startx if [ -z "$DISPL

I turned my back on 'Modern Desktop Linux' a few years ago and haven't looked back since. In my .profile I have: # if logging into tty6 startx if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && [ $(tty) = /dev/tty6 ]; then startx ; fi Then in my .xinitrc I have xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources eval $(gpg-agent --daemon) exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch awesome My full desktop environment uses 116MB RAM at boot and everything works flawlessly.