Il giorno mercoledì 28/07/2010 04:21:18 CEST [email protected] ha scritto:
> Thanks for the comparison information of xfce and LXDE. :-) > I installed LXDE and I like it. But I haven't had good luck with > slim, so I'm using gdm right now. > > If I removed gdm and installed slim, what manual work would be > necessary to get it to automatically start at boot-up, like gdm does > now? (not auto login, just start up LXDE?) > > On the LXDE Debian page, I see a mention of ~/xinitirc, but I didn't > find that on my system. I've seen other posts about Xsessions > versus /.xinitrc, etc. > > I'd like to use slim, but I really don't want to muck up my X Windows > setup. *** about the slim release: the slim package in the gNS3.0beta1 repos is 1.3.0-1 but there is a recent (July, 7) newer 1.3.2 release here: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/slim/ there is no 1.3.2 slim package neither in the gNS3.0beta1 repos nor in the debian lenny backports: so it should be compiled... anyway, it seems (the slim documentation is poor) to me that there are not too much diffs between the two relases... it is to you if you want to try compiling the 1.3.2... *** about automatically starting LXDM from a slim login first, consider slim having bugs: http://developer.berlios.de/bugs/?group_id=2663 more, the session management with slim is experimental: http://slim.berlios.de/manual.php -> §2.1 anyway slims works well to me with gNS3.0 to solve your issue you can see: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Debian#SLIM http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/slim/trunk/slim.conf http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/slim/trunk/xinitrc.sample having at the same time a look to the 'login_cmd' and 'sessions' variables in your /usr/etc/slim.conf file *** LXDE release the lxde package in the gNS3.0beta1 repos is 1.3.0-1 is 0.3.2.1, but the newer (and better!) 0.5.0-2 is available from the debian lenny backports to update lxde, add to your /etc/apt/sources.list file this row: ## debian lenny-backports deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main and then update/upgrade your system *** LXDE installation installing LDXE consider that: - the 'lxsession' component has serious bugs (maybe related to your issues) and should be replaced with the 'lxsession-lite' component see: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXSession - a cleaner LXDE installation may result installing without the reccommended deps (for 0.5.0-2 are: gdm | x-display-manager, hal, iceweasel | www-browser, lxmusic) to install without reccommended deps: sudo aptitude --without-recommends install lxde - a more cleaner and "customized" installation may resul installing firstly just the lxde-core package (again without recommends) and later the only lxde components you really need see: http://lxde.org/lxde (section: Components) for a detailed list *** the LXDM login manager LXDM is a new login manager for LXDE see: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXDM http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Gtkrc http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Greeter.ui it is under development but seems to be usable and pretty good (but i do not have yet tested it...) if you will try LXDM, please let me know about it Hope it will help Regards al3xu5 / dotcommon -- Support free software! Join FSF: http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=7535 ______________________________________________________________________ Public GPG/PGP key block ID: 1024D/11C70137 Fingerprint: 60F1 B550 3A95 7901 F410 D484 82E7 5377 11C7 0137 Key download: http://bitfreedom.noblogs.org/gallery/5721/dotcommon.asc [ Please, do not send my key to any keyserver! ]
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