Re: ANN: GNUstep 2.6.0 for openSUSE 11.4

[Richard Stonehouse]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 04:38:44AM -0400, nat@mulle-kybernetik.com wrote:
> Am 14.06.2011 um 03:20 schrieb Richard Stonehouse:

> >> o  was XFCE as window manager a reasonable choice, or could this
> >> be a source of some of my problems ?
> > 
> > It's actually lxdm, which is kind of loosely associated with the lxde
> > suite (not xfce) but designed to be usable independently. It was
> > originally chosen because xdm had a nasty bug, the patch for which was
> > awkward to apply because of the way xdm is built in openSUSE. lxdm
> > seemed the most lightweight Display Manager after xdm. But also it
> > looks nicer - themable and generally modern appearance.
> 
> The way I installed everything was, I installed OpenSUSE 11.4
> first, when it was time to chose a windowmanager I chose XFCE. 
> Then I installed your packages from Yast.  I am sure my window
> manager is still XFCE.

Yes, sorry, I was mixing up the package release with the VM release -
there's nothing in the packages that would change the window manager.

I don't know whether xfce or its display manager might be the cause
of any problems. You could try changing it.

In YaST2:

  * Go to System --> /etc/sysconfig Editor

  * in the /etc/sysconfig Editor, go to:

    - Desktop --> Display manager --> DISPLAYMANAGER
      and change it to something else e.g. xdm

    and

    - Desktop --> Window manager --> DEFAULT_WM
      and change it to e.g. windowmaker (if you have it installed)

    I've used the combination of xdm and windowmaker successfully
    in the past.

-- 
    Richard Stonehouse