LXDE as default in init 5

[solarflow99]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:19 AM, phil <happyharrysco1 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> 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>>
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>>    >> 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
>

ya, thats what I used to use, but I would have preferred if it was actually
like CDE as it was intended.
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