-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Robert Storey wrote: >Rather than Gnome or KDE, my desktop of choice is >XFCE (it's superfast - if you'd like to try it, >it's on the Redhat Powertools CD). > >My problem - I can't seem to make XFCE the >default desktop. The switchdesk tool does not >include an option for XFCE. Under SuSE there is >an environment variable called $WINDOWMANAGER, >but I can find no evidence of its existence in >Redhat. I have a good book about Redhat which >says that I can set the default desktop by >creating a hidden file in my home directory >called .Xclients-default with the command "exec >startxfce" inside - alas, it does not work. The >only way I can get XFCE to start is from the >command line by typing "startxfce" - which is OK, >but not elegant.
Setup your ~/.Xclients file and make it executable. Then in the gdm login, select Xsession as your session type. I don't think you need ~/.Xclients-default unless you use switchdesk. Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> PGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D Chat: AOL/Yahoo: TonyG05 Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Anthony E. Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0x6C94239D iD8DBQE8C+CQpCpg3WyUI50RApAgAJ4l59U5L4757C+s1qSlbFDq5XHEiwCgnwh5 P3ec8b8LlWd6XDmEruWgGkQ= =maCi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
