XFce and Switchdesk Tool

Paul Morgan paul.morgan at jumanjihouse.com
Thu Mar 18 15:31:49 UTC 2004


On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 10:57:09PM -0700, Aly Dharshi wrote:
> 	I am using XFce and Fedora keeps telling me to use switchdesk to  
> 	make this desktop my default, and I would like to. But when I run 
> switchdesk I see Gnome, KDE and Tw.. but not XFce.

Try adding a file "/etc/X11/dm/Sessions/xfce.desktop" with the 
following content:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=XFce
Comment=XFce
Type=Application
Icon=
Exec=/usr/bin/startxfce4

Then kill X (or logout); xfce should appear in the list of available
desktops.

Hope this helps,
Paul





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