LXDE as default in init 5

[phil]

solarflow99 wrote:
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> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:hobbes1069 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:48 PM, solarflow99 <solarflow99 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:solarflow99 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Richard Shaw
>     <hobbes1069 at gmail.com <mailto:hobbes1069 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:39 AM, solarflow99
>     <solarflow99 at gmail.com <mailto: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.
>
>     That's got to be a configuration issue or a bug. Once you set it, it
>     should stay that way. The lack of response is either because no one
>     else is having the problem or the message subject doesn't catch
>     anyone's interest. Might try reposting it as "GDM does not remember
>     session selection" or something like that. You could try another
>     desktop and see if it's remembered on restart or not which might help
>     narrow down the scope of the problem.
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> I bet hardly anyone even used LXDE, its a real shame, lean software 
> like this is what we need more.  Nothing remembers the session though..
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you may have tried it already but xfce is also a great dm, lean and 
efficient