LXDE as default in init 5

solarflow99 solarflow99 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 2 20:48:49 UTC 2009


On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:39 AM, solarflow99 <solarflow99 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I would like to set this as the default, but using runlevel 5 just brings
> up
> > GDM by default and I have to select lxde every time.  Anyone happen to
> know
> > where you can can set this?  it doesnt seem realted to prefdm, I tried
> that
> > already.
>
> If you select LXDE from GDM then it should remember that setting. I
> can't tell for sure if you've done that with the limited information
> you've provided.
>
> I recently installed F10 on a low end laptop (P2 366MHz) w/ 128MB of
> ram. I'm using LXDE in combination with Slim (login manager). I
> probably should put put it in bugzilla but I created a lxde.switchdesk
> file (modified from the fluxbox one) so you can use switchdesk to
> change to LXDE. However, I found out the hard way that if you choose
> your desktop in GDM, switchdesk will have no effect.
>

all switchdesk does is create a file with a WM setting, so if you type
startx to bring up X then it works.  I mentioned that I had to select LXDE
every time from GDM so thats what I have been doing, in fact the whole
purpose of the message was to ask how to be able to stop doing that.
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