Fedora Board Recap 2007-JAN-13

[Rahul Sundaram]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> Max Spevack wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> the biggest one is that if you install it you get twm as the window 
>>>>> manager and not a XFCE desktop environment.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe we should just call it the Fedora TWM spin.  ;)
>>>
>>> Well, if you boot it as a live cd or in USB, you will get Xfce. Post 
>>> installation, it defaults to TWM which is think is a bug somewhere 
>>> since /etc/sysconfig/desktop just disappears. Also 
>>> /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients probably should not hard core the logic it 
>>> does. I have the kickstart file at
>>>
>>> http://sundaram.fedorapeople.org/livecd-fedora-8-xfce.ks
>>>
>>> Any help is welcome.
>>>
>>
>> I'm confused with the EOF's you're using.
>>
>> It seems you want /etc/rc.d/init.d/fedora-live to have:
>>
>> cat > /etc/sysconfig/desktop <<ANOTHEREOF
>> PREFERRED=/usr/bin/startxfce4
>> ANOTHEREOF
>>
>> wrapped within the entire %post's cat << EOF, right?
>>
>> Attached a .ks with a more distinctive clarification of the point I'm 
>> trying to make but I'm not sure it does what you want it to do.
> 
> Makes no difference unfortunately since the installed system is still 
> missing /etc/sysconfig/desktop file entirely. Note that a similar 
> construct is used in KDE spin and works fine there. I guess I will see 
> if switchdesk works better.

Ok. Good news. I managed to fix the problem by moving the section right 
to the top of %post.

Rahul