starting with XFCE4

[Dennis J. Tuchler]

On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 12:23, Scott Jones wrote:
> On Thursday 11 December 2003 12:14, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
> 
> > re:  Starting with XFCE4 as the default desktop
> >
> > I finally installed XFCE4 under SuSE 9.0, using kdm to start things
> > going.  On one of my machines, there is no problem starting XFCE4 up
> > from the kdm menu.  On another of them, however, the installation did
> > not insert the command to call XFCE4 onto the kdm menu.  I can't find
> > any differences between the two machines to make a difference here.
> >
> > What sort of command do I insert, where, to start off with XFCE4 as
> > my default desktop?
> 
> Open a terminal.
> 
> As root type "ln -s /usr/bin/startxfce4 /usr/X11R6/bin/XFce4"

Will that stop the XFCE4 desktop features from appearing superimposed on
my KDR desktop:

> 
> Open the KDE control center, in Administrator Mode, go to System 
> Administration, Login Manager.  Go to the Sessions tab.  Under Session 
> Types, type XFce4 and click on Add New.  AFAIK, there is no way to set 
> a default wm, but KDM remembers a user's last choice.

Thank you for your help.  When I get through this batch of papers to
grade, I'll do what you suggested.

thanks again

dennis tuchler