Fedora Board Recap 2007-JAN-13

[Rahul Sundaram]

Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Max Spevack wrote:
>>> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>>>
>>>> the biggest one is that if you install it you get twm as the window 
>>>> manager and not a XFCE desktop environment.
>>>
>>> Maybe we should just call it the Fedora TWM spin.  ;)
>>
>> Well, if you boot it as a live cd or in USB, you will get Xfce. Post 
>> installation, it defaults to TWM which is think is a bug somewhere 
>> since /etc/sysconfig/desktop just disappears. Also 
>> /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients probably should not hard core the logic it 
>> does. I have the kickstart file at
>>
>> http://sundaram.fedorapeople.org/livecd-fedora-8-xfce.ks
>>
>> Any help is welcome.
>>
> 
> I'm confused with the EOF's you're using.
> 
> It seems you want /etc/rc.d/init.d/fedora-live to have:
> 
> cat > /etc/sysconfig/desktop <<ANOTHEREOF
> PREFERRED=/usr/bin/startxfce4
> ANOTHEREOF
> 
> wrapped within the entire %post's cat << EOF, right?
> 
> Attached a .ks with a more distinctive clarification of the point I'm 
> trying to make but I'm not sure it does what you want it to do.

Makes no difference unfortunately since the installed system is still 
missing /etc/sysconfig/desktop file entirely. Note that a similar 
construct is used in KDE spin and works fine there. I guess I will see 
if switchdesk works better.

Rahul