How to start LXDE if it is installed?

[vladimir]

Hi!

My question is very simple: how to start LXDE desktop assuming it is already installed? I have Fedora 8 as my VPS (virtual private server); when I say " yum install @lxde-desktop", the result is "Nothing to do". Therefore, I assume it is already pre-installed. But it is not running - my VNC client doesn't show any desktop (the VNC server is working OK). This is of cause may sound like a stupid question, but I have not found any documentation that would explain me how to start it.


Thanks,

Vladimir

[maces]

Hi,

you should be able to select LXDE from your loginmanager, or if you are dropped at a shell, type "startlxde".

maces

[rockdoctor]

Not sure if what follows is the best way, but it works for me on my desktop PC. I boot into runlevel 3, then run startx to initiate the X session. In order to start LXDE, I grabbed the .Xclients-default file shown below from an installation with multiple desktops, and set it to start LXDE.

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#!/bin/bash
# (c) 2001 Red Hat, Inc.

WM="startlxde"
WMPATH="/usr/bin /usr/X11R6/bin /usr/local/bin"

for p in $WMPATH ; do
   [ -x $p/$WM ] && exec $p/$WM
done

exit 1