I tried installing lxsession-lite, and got a number of dependency errors.
I've learned a lot, and appreciate all the advice, but I'm going to use xfce. (There is a lot more software I still need to install!) Thanks. --pete --- On Thu, 7/29/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [gNewSense-users] new install on Yeeloong, using LXDE > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, July 29, 2010, 3:09 PM > Thanks for all of the information! > > I was able to install lxde-core from the lenny > backport. I learned new things about aptitude and its > options. (But what does -t do?) > > I would like to install a relatively lightweight login > manager, but one that has a package. Your comments > about slim and lxdm lead me to look at xdm. > > Would that work OK with lxde? > > --------------------------- > Looking at the lxde/debian page: > XDM reads a file called .xsession in the user's home > directory to determine which window manager (resp. desktop > environment) to start. As it is usually not present on a > fresh Debian installation, we have to create it and put > LXDE's startup command there. As an example, this is a > minimal working .xsession: > > #!/bin/sh > exec startlxde > ------------------------- > Will this work to get lxde starting from boot-up, so that > an xdm login screen into lxde appears? Or would I need > to create something in a /usr/xxx directory? > > Thanks. > > --pete > > > --- On Wed, 7/28/10, al3xu5 / dotcommon <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > From: al3xu5 / dotcommon <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [gNewSense-users] new install on > Yeeloong, using LXDE > > To: [email protected] > > Cc: [email protected] > > Date: Wednesday, July 28, 2010, 4:12 PM > > Il giorno mercoledì 28/07/2010 > > 04:21:18 CEST > > [email protected] > > ha scritto: > > > > > Thanks for the comparison information of xfce > and > > LXDE. > > > > :-) > > > > > I installed LXDE and I like it. But I haven't > > had good luck with > > > slim, so I'm using gdm right now. > > > > > > If I removed gdm and installed slim, what manual > work > > would be > > > necessary to get it to automatically start at > boot-up, > > like gdm does > > > now? (not auto login, just start up LXDE?) > > > > > > On the LXDE Debian page, I see a mention of > > ~/xinitirc, but I didn't > > > find that on my system. I've seen other posts > > about Xsessions > > > versus /.xinitrc, etc. > > > > > > I'd like to use slim, but I really don't want to > muck > > up my X Windows > > > setup. > > > > *** about the slim release: > > > > the slim package in the gNS3.0beta1 repos is 1.3.0-1 > > but there is a recent (July, 7) newer 1.3.2 release > here: > > http://developer.berlios.de/projects/slim/ > > > > there is no 1.3.2 slim package neither in the > gNS3.0beta1 > > repos nor in > > the debian lenny backports: so it should be > compiled... > > > > anyway, it seems (the slim documentation is poor) to > me > > that there are > > not too much diffs between the two relases... it is to > you > > if you want > > to try compiling the 1.3.2... > > > > > > *** about automatically starting LXDM from a slim > login > > > > first, consider slim having bugs: > > http://developer.berlios.de/bugs/?group_id=2663 > > > > more, the session management with slim is > experimental: > > http://slim.berlios.de/manual.php -> > §2.1 > > > > anyway slims works well to me with gNS3.0 > > > > to solve your issue you can see: > > http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Debian#SLIM > > http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/slim/trunk/slim.conf > > http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/slim/trunk/xinitrc.sample > > having at the same time a look to the 'login_cmd' and > > 'sessions' > > variables in your /usr/etc/slim.conf file > > > > > > *** LXDE release > > > > the lxde package in the gNS3.0beta1 repos is 1.3.0-1 > is > > 0.3.2.1, > > but the newer (and better!) 0.5.0-2 is available from > the > > debian lenny > > backports > > > > to update lxde, add to your /etc/apt/sources.list > > file this row: > > > > ## debian lenny-backports > > deb http://www.backports.org/debian > lenny-backports main > > > > and then update/upgrade your system > > > > > > *** LXDE installation > > > > installing LDXE consider that: > > > > - the 'lxsession' component has serious bugs (maybe > related > > to your > > issues) and should be replaced with the > > 'lxsession-lite' component > > see: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXSession > > > > - a cleaner LXDE installation may result installing > without > > the > > reccommended deps (for 0.5.0-2 are: gdm | > > x-display-manager, hal, > > iceweasel | www-browser, lxmusic) > > > > to install without reccommended deps: > > sudo aptitude --without-recommends install lxde > > > > - a more cleaner and "customized" installation may > resul > > installing > > firstly just the lxde-core package (again without > > recommends) and > > later the only lxde components you really need > > see: http://lxde.org/lxde (section: Components) for a > > detailed list > > > > > > *** the LXDM login manager > > > > LXDM is a new login manager for LXDE > > see: > > http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXDM > > http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Gtkrc > > http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Greeter.ui > > > > it is under development but seems to be usable and > pretty > > good > > (but i do not have yet tested it...) > > > > if you will try LXDM, please let me know about it > > > > > > > > Hope it will help > > > > Regards > > al3xu5 / dotcommon > > > > -- > > Support free software! 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