My old Thinkpad T30 (on which I ran fedup from F18 to F19) is
beginning to seem like more effort than it's worth, ever if eventual
success of the effort were a sure thing. Is there a FedDown lurking
out there somewhere?
Will an install DVD for F18 (preferably one with both gnome and
xfce4) let me treat the installation as if it were an upgrade, and
preserve my data and tweaks?
Have not worked with a T30, but on T51, T51e, and T60 I have done limited testing, and
found that changing to lightdm makes it work for me.
Got info from user poma
# yum install lightdm
# systemctl enable lightdm --force
# systemctl start lightdm
OK, I did that, by cutting and pasting; thanks!
Unfortunately , however, it's ove r my head.
The issue I've had with older machine that I've tried upgrading to 19 is that if I
open a terminal windows from the X windows, the gnome shell starts using 20% to 40% of the
cpu. Don't see anything with xfce and opening a terminal window.
Remember I'm only on it with ssh -- and even if I had a command line on the laptop
itself, I wouldn't know how to open a terminal , much less launch the whole GUI.
I rebooted, hoping for a login screen. No such luck. I tried typing xfce and enter, and
xfce4 and enter, and finally startx, for lack of any other ide a ; they all failed.
Incidentally, I follow this list via gmane, where all the webgibberish makes your text
completely illegible; please desist. (I'm replying via your direct carbon, using a
mailer I have little experience with and no liking for.) In fact, I'm pretty sure the
list has a rule against any form of html , anyway.