Re: [gNewSense-users] new install on Yeeloong, back to xfce

[usonaulo-pete]

I tried installing lxsession-lite, and got a number of dependency errors.  

I've learned a lot, and appreciate all the advice, but I'm going to use xfce.  
(There is a lot more software I still need to install!)

Thanks.

--pete

--- On Thu, 7/29/10, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: address@hidden <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [gNewSense-users] new install on Yeeloong, using LXDE
> To: address@hidden
> Date: Thursday, July 29, 2010, 3:09 PM
> Thanks for all of the information!
> 
> I was able to install lxde-core from the lenny
> backport.  I learned new things about aptitude and its
> options.  (But what does -t do?)
> 
> I would like to install a relatively lightweight login
> manager, but one that has a package.  Your comments
> about slim and lxdm lead me to look at xdm.
> 
> Would that work OK with lxde?  
> 
> ---------------------------
> Looking at the lxde/debian page:
> XDM reads a file called .xsession in the user's home
> directory to determine which window manager (resp. desktop
> environment) to start. As it is usually not present on a
> fresh Debian installation, we have to create it and put
> LXDE's startup command there. As an example, this is a
> minimal working .xsession:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> exec startlxde
> -------------------------
> Will this work to get lxde starting from boot-up, so that
> an xdm login screen into lxde appears?  Or would I need
> to create something in a /usr/xxx directory?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --pete
> 
> 
> --- On Wed, 7/28/10, al3xu5 / dotcommon <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: al3xu5 / dotcommon <address@hidden>
> > Subject: Re: [gNewSense-users] new install on
> Yeeloong, using LXDE
> > To: address@hidden
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Date: Wednesday, July 28, 2010, 4:12 PM
> > Il giorno mercoledì 28/07/2010
> > 04:21:18 CEST
> > address@hidden
> > ha scritto:
> > 
> > > Thanks for the comparison information of xfce
> and
> > LXDE.
> > 
> > :-)
> > 
> > > I installed LXDE and I like it.  But I haven't
> > had good luck with
> > > slim, so I'm using gdm right now.
> > > 
> > > If I removed gdm and installed slim, what manual
> work
> > would be
> > > necessary to get it to automatically start at
> boot-up,
> > like gdm does
> > > now?  (not auto login, just start up LXDE?)
> > > 
> > > On the LXDE Debian page, I see a mention of
> > ~/xinitirc, but I didn't
> > > find that on my system.  I've seen other posts
> > about Xsessions
> > > versus /.xinitrc, etc.  
> > > 
> > > I'd like to use slim, but I really don't want to
> muck
> > up my X Windows
> > > setup.
> > 
> > *** about the slim release: 
> > 
> > the slim package in the gNS3.0beta1 repos is 1.3.0-1
> > but there is a recent (July, 7) newer 1.3.2 release
> here:
> > http://developer.berlios.de/projects/slim/
> > 
> > there is no 1.3.2 slim package neither in the
> gNS3.0beta1
> > repos nor in
> > the debian lenny backports: so it should be
> compiled... 
> > 
> > anyway, it seems (the slim documentation is poor) to
> me
> > that there are
> > not too much diffs between the two relases... it is to
> you
> > if you want
> > to try compiling the 1.3.2...
> > 
> > 
> > *** about automatically starting LXDM from a slim
> login
> > 
> > first, consider slim having bugs:
> > http://developer.berlios.de/bugs/?group_id=2663
> > 
> > more, the session management with slim is
> experimental:
> > http://slim.berlios.de/manual.php ->
> §2.1
> > 
> > anyway slims works well to me with gNS3.0
> > 
> > to solve your issue you can see:
> > http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Debian#SLIM
> > http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/slim/trunk/slim.conf
> > http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/slim/trunk/xinitrc.sample
> > having at the same time a look to the 'login_cmd' and
> > 'sessions'
> > variables in your  /usr/etc/slim.conf  file
> > 
> > 
> > *** LXDE release
> > 
> > the lxde package in the gNS3.0beta1 repos is 1.3.0-1
> is
> > 0.3.2.1,
> > but the newer (and better!) 0.5.0-2 is available from
> the
> > debian lenny
> > backports
> > 
> > to update lxde, add to your /etc/apt/sources.list 
> > file this row:
> > 
> > ## debian lenny-backports
> > deb http://www.backports.org/debian
> lenny-backports main
> > 
> > and then update/upgrade your system
> > 
> > 
> > *** LXDE installation
> > 
> > installing LDXE consider that:
> > 
> > - the 'lxsession' component has serious bugs (maybe
> related
> > to your
> >   issues) and should be replaced with the
> > 'lxsession-lite' component
> >   see: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXSession
> > 
> > - a cleaner LXDE installation may result installing
> without
> > the
> >   reccommended deps (for 0.5.0-2 are: gdm |
> > x-display-manager, hal,
> >   iceweasel | www-browser, lxmusic) 
> >   
> >   to install without reccommended deps:
> >   sudo aptitude --without-recommends install lxde
> > 
> > - a more cleaner and "customized" installation may
> resul
> > installing
> >   firstly just the lxde-core package (again without
> > recommends) and
> >   later the only lxde components you really need
> >   see: http://lxde.org/lxde (section: Components) for a
> > detailed list
> > 
> > 
> > *** the LXDM login manager
> > 
> > LXDM is a new login manager for LXDE
> > see:
> > http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXDM
> > http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Gtkrc
> > http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Greeter.ui
> > 
> > it is under development but seems to be usable and
> pretty
> > good
> > (but i do not have yet tested it...)
> > 
> > if you will try LXDM, please let me know about it
> >  
> > 
> > 
> > Hope it will help
> > 
> > Regards
> > al3xu5 / dotcommon
> > 
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