I've just installed opensuse 10.2 on an old machine - 500 Mhz chip with 384 MG RAM I selected a minimal X with xfce desktop. Once installed , X runs with fvwm rather then xfce - how to I configure X to use xfce - this isn't mentioned in any of the xfce documentation I can read. thanks, Gord -- Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology gordon.holtslander@usask.ca University of Saskatchewan Tel 306 966-4433 112 Science Place Fax 306 966-4461 Saskatoon SK., CANADA homepage.usask.ca/~gjh289 S7N 5E2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 24 July 2007 18:07, Gordon J. Holtslander wrote:
I've just installed opensuse 10.2 on an old machine - 500 Mhz chip with 384 MG RAM
I selected a minimal X with xfce desktop.
Once installed , X runs with fvwm rather then xfce - how to I configure X to use xfce - this isn't mentioned in any of the xfce documentation I can read.
thanks,
Gord -- Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology gordon.holtslander@usask.ca University of Saskatchewan Tel 306 966-4433 112 Science Place Fax 306 966-4461 Saskatoon SK., CANADA homepage.usask.ca/~gjh289 S7N 5E2
The file /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager has DEFAULT_WM="kde" I guess in your case it will be fvwm or fvwm2. Change that to DEFAULT_WM="xfce" and it should work. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 19:28 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
On Tuesday 24 July 2007 18:07, Gordon J. Holtslander wrote:
I've just installed opensuse 10.2 on an old machine - 500 Mhz chip with 384 MG RAM
I selected a minimal X with xfce desktop.
Once installed , X runs with fvwm rather then xfce - how to I configure X to use xfce - this isn't mentioned in any of the xfce documentation I can read.
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The file /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager has DEFAULT_WM="kde" I guess in your case it will be fvwm or fvwm2. Change that to DEFAULT_WM="xfce" and it should work.
------- The other option that maybe easier to do, especially if you're new to linux, is to change the session type at logon. Say, you use kdm (comes with kde) to get a graphical logon screen at the start, then go down to the option in the lower left of the screen and simply choose the window manager you want before logging in - the list of wm you have installed will be given there. gdm (comes with gnome) or xdm handles this slightly differently, but the list of possible session types is there, nevertheless. Next time you start this choice will also remain the default unless you change it manually again. HTH. Gavin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On July 24, 2007 6:28:57 pm Rajko M. wrote:
On Tuesday 24 July 2007 18:07, Gordon J. Holtslander wrote:
I've just installed opensuse 10.2 on an old machine - 500 Mhz chip with 384 MG RAM
I selected a minimal X with xfce desktop.
Once installed , X runs with fvwm rather then xfce - how to I configure X to use xfce - this isn't mentioned in any of the xfce documentation I can read.
thanks,
Gord -- Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology gordon.holtslander@usask.ca University of Saskatchewan Tel 306 966-4433 112 Science Place Fax 306 966-4461 Saskatoon SK., CANADA homepage.usask.ca/~gjh289 S7N 5E2
The file /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager has DEFAULT_WM="kde" I guess in your case it will be fvwm or fvwm2. Change that to DEFAULT_WM="xfce" and it should work.
-- Regards, Rajko.
I tried this setting DEFAULT_WM="xfce in /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager but the system would start X, and just load a mousepointer and stop - no icons or anything on the screen The XFCE documentaion seemed to suggust setting the manager to xfwm4 - but this did the same thing. - started X but no icons. Read the documentation further and created an .xinit.rc file and put the command exec startxfce4 in the file. This works Gord -- Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology gordon.holtslander@usask.ca University of Saskatchewan Tel 306 966-4433 112 Science Place Fax 306 966-4461 Saskatoon SK., CANADA homepage.usask.ca/~gjh289 S7N 5E2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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