On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:48 PM, solarflow99 <
solarflow99@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Richard Shaw <
hobbes1069@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:39 AM, solarflow99 <
solarflow99@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I would like to set this as the default, but using runlevel 5 just
>> > brings up
>> > GDM by default and I have to select lxde every time. Anyone happen to
>> > know
>> > where you can can set this? it doesnt seem realted to prefdm, I tried
>> > that
>> > already.
>>
>> If you select LXDE from GDM then it should remember that setting. I
>> can't tell for sure if you've done that with the limited information
>> you've provided.
>>
>> I recently installed F10 on a low end laptop (P2 366MHz) w/ 128MB of
>> ram. I'm using LXDE in combination with Slim (login manager). I
>> probably should put put it in bugzilla but I created a lxde.switchdesk
>> file (modified from the fluxbox one) so you can use switchdesk to
>> change to LXDE. However, I found out the hard way that if you choose
>> your desktop in GDM, switchdesk will have no effect.
>
> all switchdesk does is create a file with a WM setting, so if you type
> startx to bring up X then it works. I mentioned that I had to select LXDE
> every time from GDM so thats what I have been doing, in fact the whole
> purpose of the message was to ask how to be able to stop doing that.