On Monday, April 14th, 2025 at 11:04 AM, Rich Shepard
wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2025, Ben Koenig wrote:
>
> > Ah Ha! That explains a lot. since runlevel 4 is set, when you restart
> > slackware will automatically launch sddm, which is the display manager for
> > KDE. Jonathan was probably right a
On Mon, 14 Apr 2025, Johnathan Mantey wrote:
I use the Fedora display manager to login, which probably means GDDM. I
believe in the lower right corner of the screen, prior to being logged in,
there is a dropdown that allows selection of the desktop environment. If I
had Xfce installed I would ex
I use the Fedora display manager to login, which probably means GDDM.
I believe in the lower right corner of the screen, prior to being logged
in, there is a dropdown that allows selection of the desktop environment.
If I had Xfce installed I would expect it to be one of the options there,
along wi
On Mon, 14 Apr 2025, Ben Koenig wrote:
Sounds like you are already logged in. You want to do this from the login
screen before typing in your password. Either select the "log out" option
from the K menu or just reboot the laptop.
Ben,
Aha! Yep, I was logged in.
Rebooted and saw the DE next t
On Mon, 14 Apr 2025, Ben Koenig wrote:
Ah Ha! That explains a lot. since runlevel 4 is set, when you restart
slackware will automatically launch sddm, which is the display manager for
KDE. Jonathan was probably right at the beginning of this thread since in
runlevel 4 all that xinitrc stuff will
On Mon, 14 Apr 2025, Ben Koenig wrote:
Have you configured this laptop for graphical login? Run level 4? This
would have been set in /etc/inittab:
Ben,
No. Whatever was the installation default.
# These are the default runlevels in Slackware:
# 0 = halt
# 1 = single user mode
# 2 = un
On Monday, April 14th, 2025 at 10:45 AM, Rich Shepard
wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2025, Ben Koenig wrote:
>
> > Have you configured this laptop for graphical login? Run level 4? This
> > would have been set in /etc/inittab:
>
>
> Ben,
>
> No. Whatever was the installation default.
>
> > # These
On Mon, 14 Apr 2025, Ben Koenig wrote:
So in the event that a user su's to root, runs xwmconfig to change from
KDE to XFCE, and still gets XFCE, there are really only 2 possible causes
Correction: still gets KDE.
1) the user has an old .xinitrc file referencing KDE. This means that
startx wi
On Mon, 14 Apr 2025, Johnathan Mantey wrote:
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
On Monday, April 14th, 2025 at 10:29 AM, Rich Shepard
wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2025, Ben Koenig wrote:
>
> > I ask because the .xinitrc file in your home folder takes precedence over
> > the global version. It is safe to delete it.
>
>
> Ben,
>
> Yes, there's a ~/.xinitrc and at the end is th
On Mon, 14 Apr 2025, Ben Koenig wrote:
I ask because the .xinitrc file in your home folder takes precedence over
the global version. It is safe to delete it.
Ben,
Yes, there's a ~/.xinitrc and at the end is the line:
exec /usr/bin/startxfce4.
So why's it still coming up w/KDE?
Thanks,
Rich
There is no fallback mechanism to launch KDE if XFCE fails to launch. startx
does not have the ability to switch to a "last known good config". This is less
of a Slackware situation and more xinitrc.
In addition to the usual /usr/share/xsession/ files for graphical logins,
Slackware still has
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
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
On Mon, 14 Apr 2025, Michael Ewan wrote:
Do you get a graphical login screen? If so there should be an icon
somewhere that allows you to select the default desktop. So far I
have not found a command line method for changing the desktop.
Michael,
There is a systems settings icon bottom left.
Do you get a graphical login screen? If so there should be an icon
somewhere that allows you to select the default desktop. So far I
have not found a command line method for changing the desktop.
On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 7:21 AM Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> I have Slackware-current installed on an HP
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
I have Slackware-current installed on an HP laptop. The default DE is KDE
and I want to change that to Xfce as that's what I've used for 28 years.
Opening a 'konsole' (ctrl-alt-t) as root I entered the command, 'xwmconfig',
and a dialog box opened with all available choices.
Selecting xinit.xfce
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