> My old Thinkpad T30 (on which I ran fedup from F18 to F19) is > beginning to seem like more effort than it's worth, ever if eventual > success of the effort were a sure thing. Is there a FedDown lurking > out there somewhere? > > Will an install DVD for F18 (preferably one with both gnome and > xfce4) let me treat the installation as if it were an upgrade, and > preserve my data and tweaks? > Have not worked with a T30, but on T51, T51e, and T60 I have done limited testing, and found that changing to lightdm makes it work for me. Got info from user poma # yum install lightdm # systemctl enable lightdm --force # systemctl start lightdm OK, I did that, by cutting and pasting; thanks! Unfortunately , however, it's ove r my head. The issue I've had with older machine that I've tried upgrading to 19 is that if I open a terminal windows from the X windows, the gnome shell starts using 20% to 40% of the cpu. Don't see anything with xfce and opening a terminal window. Remember I'm only on it with ssh -- and even if I had a command line on the laptop itself, I wouldn't know how to open a terminal , much less launch the whole GUI. I rebooted, hoping for a login screen. No such luck. I tried typing xfce and enter, and xfce4 and enter, and finally startx, for lack of any other ide a ; they all failed. Incidentally, I follow this list via gmane, where all the webgibberish makes your text completely illegible; please desist. (I'm replying via your direct carbon, using a mailer I have little experience with and no liking for.) In fact, I'm pretty sure the list has a rule against any form of html , anyway.
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