On Wed Feb22'23 04:27:25PM, Luna Jernberg wrote:
From: Luna Jernberg <droidbittin(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 16:27:25 +0100
To: Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>,
mlmaitra <mlmaitra(a)gmx.com>, droidbittin(a)gmail.com, Luna Jernberg
<bittin(a)fedoraproject.org>
Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Re: how to create a Fedora 37 LiveCD without a desktop environment
and with window manager
https://alt.fedoraproject.org/en/
Thanks! And where is the ks file for this?
Best wishes,
Ranjan
>
> On 2/22/23, Ranjan Maitra <mlmaitra(a)gmx.com> wrote:
> > On Wed Feb22'23 08:00:55AM, Community Support for Fedora Users wrote:
> >> From: stan via users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
> >> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 08:00:55 -0700
> >> To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> >> Cc: stan <upaitag(a)zoho.com>
> >> Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users
> >> <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
> >> Subject: Re: how to create a Fedora 37 LiveCD without a desktop
> >> environment
> >> and with window manager
> >>
> >> On Tue, 21 Feb 2023 16:56:13 -0600
> >> Ranjan Maitra <mlmaitra(a)gmx.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > I have been trying to build a LiveCD with a DE and with a window
> >> > manager. Specifically, I was thinking that I could have startx go
> >> > into starting the window manager. However, I can not quite figure out
> >> > how to handle this. Does anyone have experience with doing this?
> >> >
> >> > The notes available on LiveCD at
> >> >
https://github.com/livecd-tools/livecd-tools only discuss a minimal
> >> > LiveCD or a full-fledged one, and indeed the minimal configuration
> >> > there does not even do anything (I only get Troubleshoot). But in any
> >> > case, that is not the point.
> >> >
> >> > Any suggestions on how I can use startx instead of a login display
> >> > manager?
> >>
> >> There is no login display manager. The minimal server install, the
> >> smaller one, boots into multiuser (the old runlevel 3). From there it
> >> is possible to run a script to start X. My system boots to multiuser
> >> on boot. I then run the following to start LXDE, after logging into a
> >> virtual console, usually vt1.
> >>
> >> echo 'exec startlxde' >> $XCLIENTS
> >> sleep 3
> >> startx -- vt10
> >>
> >> This starts LXDE on virtual terminal 10, leaving the output of X on
> >> virtual terminal 1, where I usually first login.
> >>
> >> There are similar commands for the other desktops. I have them all in
> >> a script, sort of a manual greeter. When I log out of X I return to the
> >> virtual console I started X from.
> >>
> >> Since KDE and Gnome are now pretty much wayland only, I'm not sure how
> >> well the script works for them. I suppose I should run through and
> >> test everything, as invocations sometimes change, especially at branch
> >> time for a new fedora version. The way to determine the actual command
> >> that is being run to start the various desktops is to download the
> >> source for one of the actual graphical greeters (login managers), and
> >> check how it invokes the desktop.
> >>
> >
> > Thank you very much for this! I was able to get it to work with slim (local
> > rpm that i have for myself) and realized that some package sets now need to
> > be explicitly included, and that was my error.
> >
> > Btw, where is the minimal server install available?
> >
> > Thanks again!
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Ranjan
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