This way I would not need a display manager, and I can not only choose what DE/WM I wanted to boot up each session, I can run some extra Zsh commands before I even do any of that.
I meant I wanted to have the option to skip running a DE and Xorg in any session and use the command line only, and on other sessions that I wanted to use my desktop, I would use startx to run both Xorg and Cinnamon/any DE. I didn't mean I wanted to be able to "run a DE without Xorg". I just want to know how to load Cinnamon and other desktop environments (I tried i3 and it looks like it didn't even transition from the terminal text to the gui, usually there is a initial setup wizard that appears in graphical form the first time you boot up i3 or when there is no ~/.config/i3/config found.) using startx so I don't have to be limited to a display manager when logging in to my system. When I went to Themes on the gui settings manager, the themes appeared as options, but I couldn't see them in action. This makes it difficult to use the environment.
Upon running startx /bin/cinnamon, the desktop boots up and allows me to interact with it, however, many assets, such as themes, backgrounds, icons, and even the cursor (the cursor was invisible but I could still click stuff, this made it difficult to use the desktop) were missing, and the result was either black or transparent space where they were supposed to be. I tried to test different display managers to find out which one I was going to install on my computer, and I finally decided I was not going to use one, and I was instead going to use startx to run various window managers/desktop environments, as this means I can choose not to run xorg at all in any particular session if I ever want to. I tried running startx on my Arch Linux virtual machine (using Oracle Virtualbox) to test Arch Linux, and I am making new improvements rapidly.
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