Thanks for all of the information! I was able to install lxde-core from the lenny backport. I learned new things about aptitude and its options. (But what does -t do?)
I would like to install a relatively lightweight login manager, but one that has a package. Your comments about slim and lxdm lead me to look at xdm. Would that work OK with lxde? --------------------------- Looking at the lxde/debian page: XDM reads a file called .xsession in the user's home directory to determine which window manager (resp. desktop environment) to start. As it is usually not present on a fresh Debian installation, we have to create it and put LXDE's startup command there. As an example, this is a minimal working .xsession: #!/bin/sh exec startlxde ------------------------- Will this work to get lxde starting from boot-up, so that an xdm login screen into lxde appears? Or would I need to create something in a /usr/xxx directory? Thanks. --pete --- On Wed, 7/28/10, al3xu5 / dotcommon <[email protected]> wrote: > From: al3xu5 / dotcommon <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [gNewSense-users] new install on Yeeloong, using LXDE > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, July 28, 2010, 4:12 PM > 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! 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