LXDE as default in init 5

[solarflow99]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:48 PM, solarflow99 <solarflow99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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.
>
> 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.
>

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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