On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 04:14:43PM -0700, Gordon Haverland wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 16:02:00 -0500
> Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:
>
> > Some packages that require systemd probably don't do it by design,
> > but by accident. It would be appropriate to fix them. I suspect
> > gnome probably isn't in this class anymore. Old versions of gdm
> > might be.
>
> I was running the old gdm under Gentoo, until Gentoo annonced that the
> old gdm was going to be removed from the archive as being unsupported.
> I had been running the old gdm on Debian/unstable and still do run it
> under Debian/stable-testing, and I haven't experienced problems I can
> trace to a xdm type program in many years. I believe lightdm is what I
> replaced gdm with, since the replacement was being forced on me. I
> don't normally log out, so I have only used its login capabilities a
> handful of times in months.
>
> Gord

I use lightdm on my Jessie system, too.
It took a bit of configuration so I could have X teminals on CtrlAltF7-12.
Then I didn't need gdmflexiserver anymore either.

-- hendrik