On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:08:09 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard <[email protected]> dijo:

>On Mon, 14 Nov 2011, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
>> I suspect it's just an entry in some login settings file, but I
>> don't know where to look or why it disappeared. I hope there is
>> someone out in PLUG-land who understands how login screens work,
>> because I need some clues.

>Look in ~/.xinitrc (or equivalent) and see if it has a line at the
>bottom to set the window manager. If so, modify that line to point to
>startxfce4.

I think you hit the problem, although not quite squarely on the head.

During my tweaking of XFCE I discovered that the Compose key that I had
set to the left Windows key in Gnome was not working. I asked on the
XFCE forums and a kind fellow said to use:

setxkbmap -option compose:lwin

I did so and it worked. Then I asked how to make it permanent and he
said to put the command into .xinitrc. I replied that I did not have
such a file and asked if I should just create it. He responded that it
would be fine to do so, so I made the file and put the command in it.
It was after doing this that I logged out and discovered that XFCE was
no longer a login option.

So just now I renamed the .xinitrc file to .xinitrc_old, logged out and
logged back in again. But I still don't have an XFCE login option. 

I still bet the .xinitrc file is the source of the problem, but it must
have done something else as well. Or maybe I need to add a line
pointing to startxfce4. But I want the login screen to give me all
three DE options that I have installed - Gnome, KDE and XFCE. 

Also, where is startxfce4? How do I point to it?
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