logout menu not working

[steeve]

hi

i have the latest version of lxde running smoothly on arch, except none of the items on the lxde logout menu have any effect...

any ideas?

[maces]

Hi,

are you using slim? Or are you in the group power?

maces

[steeve]

thanks maces

yes i am in the group power, and i am not using slim

should i be using slim?

[maces]

Well, that's wired ...

maces

[aus9]

hi

you can solve it these ways in link
http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1215

[steeve]

thanks for that aus...i will try those methods

i have also found a solution. atm i am starting everyting from command line. if i run startx, the twm window manager is auto started. then when i run startlxde, openbox does not start because twm is already running, so lxde does not behave properly

if i first kill twm then startlxde, ok

what also works is:

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xinit /usr/bin/openbox-session
start lxde

but in both cases no logout available. Now i discover, because lxsession is not running. so if i start with

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xinit /usr/bin/lxsession

then logout works and all is good!

a little trial and a lot of error

[grogers3.14]

You can set which window manager lxde uses. Edit ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/desktop.conf and add:

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[Session]
window_manager=COMMAND_TO_START_WINDOW_MANAGER

This will make lxde run COMMAND_TO_START_WINDOW_MANAGER instead of openbox, then you should just be able to put

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ck-launch-session startlxde

in your ~/.xinitrc file.

[steeve]

thanks for that!

that was going to be my next question