Re: Migrating from SuSE to Fedora

From: tim wunder (twunder_at_REMOVEcomcast.net)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:13:13 -0500

On 2/28/2005 3:28 PM, I believe that Al Bogner wrote:
> Rod Engelsman wrote:
>
>
>>>I would like to have XFCE as default-wm. Where can I change this?
>
>
>>First, make sure that xfce is installed. It's not installed by
>>default but you can do this through "Add/Remove Packages".
>>
>>Next, open a terminal and type:
>>
>>switchdesk xfce
>>
>>This should fix you up.
>
>
> Unfortunately it doesn't, it changed the default desktop to Gnome.
> XFCE is installed and I can start it manually.
>
> Could "xfce" be a syntax error?
>
> Al

How did you install XFCE? Do you have a
"/usr/share/switchdesk/Xclients.xfce" file? If not, you can try to
create your own. This is mine (using Fedora Core 2):
$ cat /usr/share/switchdesk/Xclients.xfce
#! /bin/bash
# (c) 2000-2004 Red Hat, Inc.

WMPATH="/usr/bin /usr/X11R6/bin /usr/local/bin"

for wm in $WMPATH ; do
        [ -x $wm/startxfce4 ] && exec $wm/startxfce4
done

exit 1

You'd also need to make sure there is a 'startxfce4' script in
'/usr/bin', '/usr/X11R6/bin', or '/usr/local/bin'

HTH,
Tim

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