[SOLVED] Booting to XFCE in Slack 13.37

WinningDays93 · 09-07-2011, 06:08 PM

Hello all,

Slacker here.

I recently installed 13.37 onto an older Toshiba laptop. Everything went smoothly, it's running fine. However I'm having trouble getting it to boot into XFCE. In xwmconfig I selected XFCE, but when I switch to run level 4 it still boots to KDE. I believe I need to change something in etc/rc.d/rc.4, but I'm not sure what to do. Thoughts?

frankbell · 09-07-2011, 06:23 PM

What you are seeing on bootup is the KDM. XFCE should still run at login.

I don't know that XFCE includes a display manager of its own.

WinningDays93 · 09-07-2011, 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by frankbell

XFCE should still run at login.

When I log in it runs KDE, though.

0men · 09-07-2011, 07:59 PM

Do xwmconfig Before you type startx and select xfce.

edit: so sorry, someone similar asked a similar question on another forum and i typed it in the wrong text box.

My apologies (im still have asleep)

andrewthomas · 09-07-2011, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by WinningDays93

When I log in it runs KDE, though.

Once you get to the KDM login screen, you need to use the menu to change the window manager to xfce.

WinningDays93 · 09-07-2011, 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by andrewthomas

Once you get to the KDM login screen, you need to use the menu to change the window manager to xfce.

Oh wow...I feel really dumb. Thank you!

Is there any way I can default to XFCE without having to do this all the time? It just seems a bit tedious.

andrewthomas · 09-07-2011, 09:45 PM

You are welcome.

I believe that xwmconfig just makes a symlink to manipulate which wm to run when starting x from runlevel 3 using startx.