On July 24, 2007 6:28:57 pm Rajko M. wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 July 2007 18:07, Gordon J. Holtslander wrote:
> > I've just installed opensuse 10.2 on an old machine - 500 Mhz chip with
> > 384 MG RAM
> >
> > I selected a minimal X with xfce desktop.
> >
> > Once installed , X runs with fvwm rather then xfce - how to I configure X
> > to use xfce - this isn't mentioned in any of the xfce documentation I can
> > read.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Gord
> > --
> > Gordon J. Holtslander               Dept. of Biology
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]   University of Saskatchewan
> > Tel 306 966-4433            112 Science Place
> > Fax 306 966-4461            Saskatoon SK., CANADA
> > homepage.usask.ca/~gjh289   S7N 5E2
>
> The file
>   /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager
> has
>   DEFAULT_WM="kde"
> I guess in your case it will be fvwm or fvwm2.
> Change that to
>   DEFAULT_WM="xfce"
> and it should work.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Rajko.

I tried this setting DEFAULT_WM="xfce in /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager

but the system would start X, and just load a mousepointer and stop - no icons 
or anything on the screen

The XFCE documentaion seemed to suggust setting the manager to xfwm4 - but 
this did the same thing. - started X but no icons.

Read the documentation further and created an .xinit.rc file and put the 
command exec startxfce4 in the file.

This works

Gord
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Gordon J. Holtslander           Dept. of Biology
[EMAIL PROTECTED]       University of Saskatchewan
Tel 306 966-4433                112 Science Place
Fax 306 966-4461                Saskatoon SK., CANADA
homepage.usask.ca/~gjh289       S7N 5E2
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