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plvera
Joined: 11 Oct 2008
#1
I think the meta-installer is a great idea and very useful.
I installed lxde since I wanted to see how it would run in my old laptop. The installation went fine, when it came to a choice of desktop managers, I picked slim (had no idea what the other choice was). Then logged out and did F1 to pick lxde, but icwm still comes up.
Same after reboot.

I figure I should have picked the other choice in desktop manager. Is there a way to do this from a terminal? Or maybe there's a config file somewhere I have to edit.

Thanks.
Pedro
anticapitalista
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#2
Keep pressing F1 at login screen till you see lxde
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plvera
Joined: 11 Oct 2008
#3
Yes, I logged in as lxde, but icewm still came up.
thanks.
anticapitalista
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#4
Do you have this in .xinitrc?

lxde)
exec startlxde
;;
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plvera
Joined: 11 Oct 2008
#5
Anti:
those lines were not in there. I added them, relogged and now it's running sweet!
thanks.
Pedro
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OU812
Joined: 29 Sep 2007
#6
anti - if you're going to have a bunch of wm/de options in slim, should we just go ahead and include the corresponding entries in .xinitrc as well? I think it will things a bit friendlier.

john
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#7
John,
they are there in .xinitrc.
I think pedro had a problem because he kept the old /home when he instaled and so the old .xinitrc was kept.
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OU812
Joined: 29 Sep 2007
#8
just kidding ... i knew that.

john