I don't use the whole LXDE desktop environment. But I am trying to use LXSession as a stand-alone component, and not having much success. I'm hoping someone here is more knowledgeable and can help me.
I am working with Ubuntu 10.04, logging in with Gnome Display Manager, and have installed LXSession 0.4.3.
I'm trying to assemble a custom desktop environment, and I'd like to use LXSession to log in and out of it. I picked LXSession because there's a lot of tutorials on the web expalining how to easily get it to run a custom desktop instead of LXDE. But I can't get any of them to work.
The gdm greeter lists my custom desktop ("custom") in its session list. But when I try to log into it, I get a crash, followed by a return to the gdm greeter. I can log into Gnome just fine.
Here are the contents of my config files as they now stand:
/usr/share/xsessions/custom.desktop
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[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=custom
Comment=This is a custom desktop environment under development
Exec=/usr/bin/startcustom
Type=Application
/usr/bin/startcustom
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#!bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/lxsession -s custom
/etc/xdg/lxsession/custom/desktop.conf
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[Session]
window_manager=compiz --use-root-window ccp
/etc/xdg/lxsession/custom/autostart
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@smproxy
@avant-window-navigator
@guake
I'd appreciate any help anyone could offer.
Thanks!