I don't know much about Slackware. In my experience with switching DE's is that the DE package has to be installed. Usually you can't choose to try to configure SW that isn't installed. At the same time, your DE isn't launching, so it's worth a quick check of your installed packages to confirm Xfce is there.
On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 9:08 AM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Apr 2025, Ben Koenig wrote: > > > The tool in slackware to do this is called "xwmconfig". It's installed by > > default. > > > > It uses dialog to open a semi-graphical selection tool. It scans the > > default xinitrc files in /etc/X11/xinitrc/, presents a list, and copies > > the select file into the user's ~/.xinitrc file. startx run runs this > > xinitrc script to launch the desktop. > > > > if ~/.xinitrc is not readable, or if xwmconfig is launched as a different > > user (e.g. root), then it might not have the intended effect. > > Ben, > > Please re-read my original post. > > Thanks, > > Rich >
