Starting LXDE session from runlevel 3; nouveau comment

[Philip Rhoades]

Steven,


On 2010-04-18 01:46, Steven I Usdansky wrote:
> I may be the only person in Fedora-land who wants to do this, but I
> normally boot into runlevel 3 then start my X session (as a normal user)
> using the startx command. The only way I could figure out to do this
> (other than running lxdm as root) is to create the file
> /etc/sysconfig/desktop with the contents PREFERRED=startlxde. This
> feels wrong. I thought the logical way to do this was to set
> WM=startlxde in ~/.Xclients-default, but that method does not work.
> FWIW, I installed the April 15 (GNOME) nightly compose; installed all
> the lxde components I wanted, then deleted all the GNOME
> components I didn't want - there was no lxde nightly compose on
> April 16 when I checked.
>
> Nouveau works for me  (smolt profile
> http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_c3a13690-ccd2-4ceb-b1af-f5c6eef55481)


I use this method too (I like to have the control in case there are 
graphics problems in startup) but I am still on F12 at the moment.  I 
also have to have /etc/sysconfig/desktop with:

	PREFERRED=startlxde

AND ~/.Xclients-default with:

	WM=startlxde

or LXDE does not work but ONLY changing ~/.Xclients-default to:

	WM="gnome-session"

causes GNOME to be used?!

Regards,

Phil.
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