Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (282 mails)

[Andrea Florio <andrea@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Il 04/10/2010 03:38, Felix Miata ha scritto:
> I have a slow old PIII-1000 w/ 384M RAM, and KDE was just getting too slow
> and broken to suffer through. So, I used zypper rm to eradicate all *kd*,
> then 'zypper in patterns-openSUSE-lxde', then startx. That gave a black
> screen and mouse pointer. I thought I had failed to get any WM, but after a
> while I tried a right click, and discovered I was in openbox. I quit and went
> to look in /etc/sysconfig displaymanager, and found DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm". The
> preceding list of possibles has nothing resembling lxde. What should I use? I
> tried lxde and lxdm there, but neither changed anything I could tell. How do
> I get startx to open LXDE? startlxde|startlxde --help|startxde :0|startlxde
> -- :0 all return nothing.
>
> Ncurses yast doesn't seem to have a way to configure the display manager.
> There's a Desktop choice in /etc/sysconfig Editor, but I can't figure out a
> way to make it do anything.
>
> Is lxdm supposed to look different from  xdm? Init 5 gives xdm even though
> the pattern installed lxdm.


you have to use the following:


to use lxdm instead of xdm:

/etc/sysconfig/dispalymanager

DISPLAYMANAGER="lxdm"


to run lxde:

/etc/sysconfig/windowmanager

DEFAULT_WM="startlxde"

Andrea




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Andrea Florio
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