Slack 15 unable to change from kde plasma desktop

forjeuk · 09-20-2023, 07:25 AM

I've just installed Slackware 15 and set up run level 4 to start in x.
I want the XFCE desktop because KDE Plasma is much too heavy for my very old Dell Inspiron 1300 2gig 32bit laptop.
I've used xwmconfig to select XFCE desktop and xinitrc points to xinitrc.xfce but when I reboot the system, it starts in KDE Plasma!!
If I start in run level 3 I can execute startxfce4 and get the correct desktop, but in run level 4 it just starts KDE Plasma!!.
What am I missing??
Thanks for any help.

Petri Kaukasoina · 09-20-2023, 08:16 AM

Click 'Desktop Session' on the bottom of the sddm login screen.

forjeuk · 09-20-2023, 12:13 PM

Thanks Petri.
SDDM was not being loaded, but found a way to do so and now can select desktop as identified.
Solves the situation as it stands but I'd like to find a way whereby XFCE is loaded as the default desktop.
Regards

Petri Kaukasoina · 09-20-2023, 12:55 PM

It will remember your choice next time. For example, because I have selected 'Xsession default' as the Desktop Session in SDDM, it has created /var/lib/sddm/state.conf with this content:

Code:

[Last]
# Name of the last logged-in user.
# This user will be preselected when the login screen appears
User=kaukasoi


# Name of the session for the last logged-in user.
# This session will be preselected when the login screen appears.
Session=/usr/share/xsessions/xwmconfig.desktop

And /usr/share/xsessions/xwmconfig.desktop is this:

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Xsession default
Comment=Use Xsession to start the desktop configured by xwmconfig
Exec=/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession

And /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession will run $HOME/.xsession which can be written by xwmconfig (or written by hand...). Or /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc if there is no $HOME/.xsession.

business_kid · 09-20-2023, 01:25 PM

Have a look in /etc/X11/xinit/. To change the default to XFCE run

Code:

sudo ln -sf /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.xfce /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

That overrides all the stuff in /usr/share/.