Harry Putnam wrote:
Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host
Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram
LXDE on the menu item Preferences ===> Desktop Preferences
Nothing can be set there and it does not even show a dialog
box... just an error messages that says:
Desktop manager is not active
All the lxde-base pkgs contained in lxde-meta are installed.
Openbox wm is installed.
Anyone know what that error message means or how to get around or fix
it?
Is pcmanfm running?
$ ps ax | grep pcmanfm
2975 ? Sl 0:00 pcmanfm --desktop --profile LXDE
2982 ? Sl 0:00 pcmanfm --desktop
If not, check if it specified in the lxsession configuration. On my system the (default)
lxsession configuration file contains:
$ cat .config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart
@lxpanel --profile LXDE
@pcmanfm --desktop --profile LXDE
@xscreensaver -no-splash
You could also check the 'Autostart' tab in the 'Preferences->Default applications for
LXSession' and verify that 'Disable autostarted applications' dropdown entry is set to
'No'. You reach the same config window by issuing:
$ lxsession-default-apps
raffaele
