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.
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:39 AM, solarflow99 solarflow99@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.
Richard
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Richard Shaw hobbes1069@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:39 AM, solarflow99 solarflow99@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.
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:48 PM, solarflow99 solarflow99@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Richard Shaw hobbes1069@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:39 AM, solarflow99 solarflow99@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.
Richard
Richard
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Richard Shaw hobbes1069@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:48 PM, solarflow99 solarflow99@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Richard Shaw hobbes1069@gmail.com
wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:39 AM, solarflow99 solarflow99@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..
solarflow99 wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@gmail.com mailto:hobbes1069@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:48 PM, solarflow99 <solarflow99@gmail.com <mailto:solarflow99@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@gmail.com <mailto:hobbes1069@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:39 AM, solarflow99 <solarflow99@gmail.com <mailto:solarflow99@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..
you may have tried it already but xfce is also a great dm, lean and efficient
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:19 AM, phil happyharrysco1@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
solarflow99 wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@gmail.commailto: hobbes1069@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:48 PM, solarflow99 <solarflow99@gmail.com mailto:solarflow99@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Richard Shaw
<hobbes1069@gmail.com mailto:hobbes1069@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:39 AM, solarflow99
<solarflow99@gmail.com mailto:solarflow99@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..
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.
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Richard Shaw hobbes1069@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:48 PM, solarflow99 solarflow99@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Richard Shaw hobbes1069@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:39 AM, solarflow99 solarflow99@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.
Richard
Richard
As I recall in F10 the file, /etc/sysconfig/desktop, was not installed by default. Have you checked to see if the file exists? If not, create the file with the following contents and file a bug report:
DESKTOP="LXDE" DISPLAYMANAGER="GNOME"
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Kam Leo kam.leo@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Richard Shaw hobbes1069@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:48 PM, solarflow99 solarflow99@gmail.com
wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Richard Shaw hobbes1069@gmail.com
wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:39 AM, solarflow99 solarflow99@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.
Richard
Richard
As I recall in F10 the file, /etc/sysconfig/desktop, was not installed by default. Have you checked to see if the file exists? If not, create the file with the following contents and file a bug report:
DESKTOP="LXDE" DISPLAYMANAGER="GNOME"http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
those settings dont work, if I set PREFERRED=/usr/bin/lxde then it will as long as i'm in runlevel 3 and use startx. I see one of the reasons why it doesnt save the session is because i'm one of the ones that uses root to login, i'd like to find where GDM seems to get its session data from and add root in the list.
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:39 AM, solarflow99 solarflow99@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.
I selected LXDE at the GDM. Logged in. Rebooted. The LXDE was still selected when I logged in a second time. In my system I have a hidden file, which stores my desktop selection to remember it:
$ cat $HOME/.dmrc [Desktop] Session=LXDE
first time I ever try LXDE and is indeed quite fast. ~af
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Aldo Foot lunixer@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:39 AM, solarflow99 solarflow99@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.
I selected LXDE at the GDM. Logged in. Rebooted. The LXDE was still selected when I logged in a second time. In my system I have a hidden file, which stores my desktop selection to remember it:
$ cat $HOME/.dmrc [Desktop] Session=LXDE
first time I ever try LXDE and is indeed quite fast.
If only I could get root to work then, you'll notice if you logged as root, it doesnt save the session even if that file is there. Also from my previous post, it should have been PREFERRED=/usr/bin/startlxde
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:56 AM, solarflow99 solarflow99@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Aldo Foot lunixer@gmail.com wrote:
I selected LXDE at the GDM. Logged in. Rebooted. The LXDE was still selected when I logged in a second time. In my system I have a hidden file, which stores my desktop selection to remember it:
$ cat $HOME/.dmrc [Desktop] Session=LXDE
first time I ever try LXDE and is indeed quite fast.
If only I could get root to work then, you'll notice if you logged as root, it doesnt save the session even if that file is there. Also from my previous post, it should have been PREFERRED=/usr/bin/startlxde
I've done this on a F10 system. The .dmrc files does not exist for root even I chose the session at the login window. So I created /root/.dmrc. I log out and back in and my root session is saved. The syntax of the .dmrc doesn't use PREFERRED in it. That's for the prefdm file, which you can modify if you like. I'm not using prefdm or at all. I'm not changing any other files except .dmrc.
~af
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Aldo Foot lunixer@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:56 AM, solarflow99 solarflow99@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Aldo Foot lunixer@gmail.com wrote:
I selected LXDE at the GDM. Logged in. Rebooted. The LXDE was still selected when I logged in a second time. In my system I have a hidden file, which stores my desktop selection to remember it:
$ cat $HOME/.dmrc [Desktop] Session=LXDE
first time I ever try LXDE and is indeed quite fast.
If only I could get root to work then, you'll notice if you logged as
root,
it doesnt save the session even if that file is there. Also from my previous post, it should have been PREFERRED=/usr/bin/startlxde
I've done this on a F10 system. The .dmrc files does not exist for root even I chose the session at the login window. So I created /root/.dmrc. I log out and back in and my root session is saved. The syntax of the .dmrc doesn't use PREFERRED in it. That's for the prefdm file, which you can modify if you like. I'm not using prefdm or at all. I'm not changing any other files except .dmrc. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
thats what I mean for one of my last posts. I checked for the .dmrc file and it still doesnt do it. Are you sure it works, because root isnt even in the drop down user list from GDM, thats what seems to be the problem. I have to click "other" so no session info is saved.
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:30 AM, solarflow99 solarflow99@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Aldo Foot lunixer@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:56 AM, solarflow99 solarflow99@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Aldo Foot lunixer@gmail.com wrote:
I selected LXDE at the GDM. Logged in. Rebooted. The LXDE was still selected when I logged in a second time. In my system I have a hidden file, which stores my desktop selection to remember it:
$ cat $HOME/.dmrc [Desktop] Session=LXDE
first time I ever try LXDE and is indeed quite fast.
If only I could get root to work then, you'll notice if you logged as root, it doesnt save the session even if that file is there. Also from my previous post, it should have been PREFERRED=/usr/bin/startlxde
I've done this on a F10 system. The .dmrc files does not exist for root even I chose the session at the login window. So I created /root/.dmrc. I log out and back in and my root session is saved. The syntax of the .dmrc doesn't use PREFERRED in it. That's for the prefdm file, which you can modify if you like. I'm not using prefdm or at all. I'm not changing any other files except .dmrc.
thats what I mean for one of my last posts. I checked for the .dmrc file and it still doesnt do it. Are you sure it works, because root isnt even in the drop down user list from GDM, thats what seems to be the problem. I have to click "other" so no session info is saved.
I can assure you it works for me, but I have to type in the root account. All other user names show up and I can click one to select it. The GDM has changed the way root logins are handled. I don't know whether there is a way to make the root account appear at the GDM login.
~af
solarflow99 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.
http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Fedora#Make_LXDE_the_default_Desktop
Frank
solarflow99 wrote:
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Aldo Foot <lunixer@gmail.com mailto:lunixer@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:39 AM, solarflow99 <solarflow99@gmail.com <mailto:solarflow99@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. I selected LXDE at the GDM. Logged in. Rebooted. The LXDE was still selected when I logged in a second time. In my system I have a hidden file, which stores my desktop selection to remember it: $ cat $HOME/.dmrc [Desktop] Session=LXDE first time I ever try LXDE and is indeed quite fast.If only I could get root to work then, you'll notice if you logged as root, it doesnt save the session even if that file is there. Also from my previous post, it should have been PREFERRED=/usr/bin/startlxde
but why login as root? why not use 'su' or 'sudo', logging in as root all the time isn't recommended
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:09 PM, phil happyharrysco1@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
solarflow99 wrote:
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Aldo Foot <lunixer@gmail.com mailto: lunixer@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:39 AM, solarflow99 <solarflow99@gmail.com mailto:solarflow99@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.
I selected LXDE at the GDM. Logged in. Rebooted. The LXDE was still selected when I logged in a second time. In my system I have a hidden file, which stores my desktop selection to remember it:
$ cat $HOME/.dmrc [Desktop] Session=LXDE
first time I ever try LXDE and is indeed quite fast.
If only I could get root to work then, you'll notice if you logged as root, it doesnt save the session even if that file is there. Also from my previous post, it should have been PREFERRominED=/usr/bin/startlxde
but why login as root? why not use 'su' or 'sudo', logging in as root all the time isn't recommended http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
oh no, I thought this one might be coming, but anyways i'm happy to answer your question. I found that because of what I am usually doing using su is a huge hassle, almost everything I do needs to be root, and there are reasons why I would want to do that. I agree with not allowing root by default, but its not actually for everyone.
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