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Recently I have installed fedora 15 in my machine , every thing gone well. then i changed graphical login to command line login , after reboot i logged in via command mode , every thing is ok .....
my request is that If i give 'startx 'command . the gnome desktop is displaying by default. and i want to use lxde instead of gnome . because my machine is little bit outdated ..
what configuration files do i have to change if i want to use lxde instead of gnome by default..
yes !!! . I have already installed lxde desktop during f15 installation . but my question is that where i have to execute the above code ? in which file ? ..
..but my question is that where i have to execute the above code ? in which file ?
When you bootup, since you use command line login, on console type the above commands. The file name is .xinitrc in your home directory. Its a hidden file. What the above command does is, it puts entry 'exec startlxde' in that file. When you execute 'startx', it will read from .xinitrc file to know that lxde should be started.
The .xinitrc file will not be there. We need to create it. The command I gave before not only puts the line 'exec startlxde' into .xinitrc file, it will also _create_ a file by that name, if it does not already exits.
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