On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:09:25 -0800 Rogan Creswick <[email protected]> dijo:
>>>On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 15:51, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> >>>wrote: >>>> And when the login screen came up my only choices were Gnome and >>>> KDE. XFCE is gone, disappeared into the ether, like a soft vapor >>>> on a summer day. OK, it's a chilly rainy fall day, but it's still >>>> gone. >This is not the /right/ way to solve your problem, but it should work: > >You can create a custom xsession configuration pretty easily -- I had >this problem recently with Fedora 15 (I wanted to use xmonad as my >WM), and blogged briefly about it so I could find the solution again: > >http://creswick.github.com/blog/2011/11/07/xmonad-in-fedora-15/ > >You'll want it to point to the xsession executable instead of xmonad, >so something like this may work: > >/usr/share/xsessions/xfce4.desktop: > >[Desktop Entry] >Name=XFCE4 >Comment=Window manager >Exec=/usr/bin/startxfce4 >Type=Application > >Once that's created (as root) you'll need to log out, but that should >be it. This was part of the solution. I checked and, sure enough, in /usr/share/xsession there were desktop files for Gnome, KDE, and KDE safe mode, but none for XFCE. But then I checked and there was no startxfce4 script anywhere in the filesystem either. So, while scratching my head, I refreshed the page in the XFCE forums where I had posted about this problem earlier today, and there was a reply. The reply said that I needed to check in Fedora forums because it was a problem with a package not installing the desktop file. He specifically stated that on his OpenSUSE computer he needed to install xfce-utils. So I fired up Yumex and, sure enough, xfce-utils was not installed it. I installed it, and afterwards not only was the script in place, but the desktop file had been created in /etc/share/xsession. I logged out and back in again, chose XFCE, and here I am in XFCE-land again. Now, the big question is, why was the login option there previously when xfce-utils was never installed? I am guessing that because I originally installed XFCE a couple years ago, at that time the xfce-utils package was not required. But that doesn't explain why the script and desktop file would disappear. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
