Default desktop environment in fedora 15

asifbasha · 06-12-2011, 11:24 PM

Hai to all

Recently I have installed fedora 15 in my machine , every thing gone well. then i changed graphical login to command line login , after reboot i logged in via command mode , every thing is ok .....

my request is that If i give 'startx 'command . the gnome desktop is displaying by default. and i want to use lxde instead of gnome . because my machine is little bit outdated ..

what configuration files do i have to change if i want to use lxde instead of gnome by default..

thanks in advance

saivnoba · 06-13-2011, 01:51 AM

Have you installed lxde? You use 'startx' to launch GUI? Then try,

Code:

echo "exec startlxde" > .xinitrc
startx

asifbasha · 06-13-2011, 05:11 AM

thanks for your quick response

yes !!! . I have already installed lxde desktop during f15 installation . but my question is that where i have to execute the above code ? in which file ? ..

RockDoctor · 06-13-2011, 05:41 AM

The above code would be executed your console session. On my system, it appears that /etc/sysconfig/desktop holds the required configuration info:

Code:

/etc/sysconfig$ cat desktop 
PREFERRED=/usr/bin/startlxde
DISPLAYMANAGER=/usr/sbin/lxdm

saivnoba · 06-13-2011, 07:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by asifbasha

..but my question is that where i have to execute the above code ? in which file ?

When you bootup, since you use command line login, on console type the above commands. The file name is .xinitrc in your home directory. Its a hidden file. What the above command does is, it puts entry 'exec startlxde' in that file. When you execute 'startx', it will read from .xinitrc file to know that lxde should be started.

asifbasha · 06-15-2011, 02:43 AM

I am using fedora 15 . There is no such hidden file named .xinitrc . I found this by executing
the following commands,

[asif@asif.com]$ pwd

/home/asif

[asif@asif.com]$ ls -a

Do I have to create a new one ?

saivnoba · 06-15-2011, 03:43 AM

The .xinitrc file will not be there. We need to create it. The command I gave before not only puts the line 'exec startlxde' into .xinitrc file, it will also _create_ a file by that name, if it does not already exits.

asifbasha · 06-15-2011, 03:57 AM

Thanks for your quick response

I works !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks to LQ community