in ~/.xinitrc, stopping gdm and manually starting Xorg with startx.gnome-settings-daemon seems to work fine when started this way, and no system files need to be changed. In terms of practicality I guess it's also quite a bad method of logging in....
By writing
exec openbox-session
in ~/.xinitrc, stopping gdm and manually starting Xorg with startx. gnome-settings- daemon seems to work fine when started this way, and no system files need to be changed. In terms of practicality I guess it's also quite a bad method of logging in....