Hi all.
I’m running an old P3 with 512 of Ram.
I installed Opensuse 11.2 with the KDE desktop, and then I went online and used the one-click install to install the LXDE desktop.
Now I’m trying to get my machine to boot directly to LXDE.
If I end a KDE session, I can select LXDE as a new session and get into it fine. It seems to run well on this machine. But if I shutdown from LXDE, my next boot sends me straight into KDE. It seems the only way I can get to LXDE is to be in KDE first, which is kind of defeating the whole reason why I wanted a light weight and quick booting desktop for this machine.
Am I missing something? I thought Opensuse automatically rebooted back into whatever desktop was used last?
I’d sure appreciate some help…
Dave
Look here -> Default Desktop
You should be able to set LXDE as the default desktop in the sysconfig as described in this post and change it into DEFAULT_WM="lxde"or something.
Hope it helps.
Hey man,
Thanks for trying to help.
I checked the post you mentioned and took a look at sysconfig as directed. But there is no drop-down option for changing the default WM to LXDE. Others are mentioned in the drop-down list (like gnome and xfce) but I’m a little scared of what would happen if I typed in LXDE when it’s not listed there.
Any thoughts?
Hi
It should be startlxde from memory. yes, you can enter what you want in
there, else edit from the command line;
gnomesu gedit /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager
or
kdesu kwrite /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager
and change to
DEFAULT_WM="startlxde"
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If this is solved and the OP doesn’t mind me hijacking this thread. How can I boot into lxdm at startup? My system currently lands at the tty prompt.
Please start a new thread. This one is about openSUSE 11.2, dates from 2009.