Removing lxde

**jheaton5** · 05-17-2010, 10:49 AM

I prefer Gnome. I installed gdm and gnome. Then I removed lxde and openbox. When booting/rebooting openbox tries to reboot, fails and shuts down X, which then immediately restarts. This is an endless loop.

How do I set gdm as the default?

**krishna.murphy** · 05-17-2010, 04:22 PM

Since the cheatcodes say

Code:

knoppix desktop=kde|gnome|icewm

and you've installed gdm, I suggest trying

Code:

knoppix desktop=gdm

to start with; once it's proven, I think you can use the System config in the Preferences menu to set it permanently.

Cheers!
Krishna

**jheaton5** · 05-17-2010, 05:47 PM

Thank you for the reply. I should have said I have installed knoppix to hd. The opening screen allowing the entry of cheat codes does not come up.

I assume that the cheat codes are stored in a file somewhere. I could possibly edit that file to "desktop=gnome" None of this may be of any use. The 6.2 cheat code wiki says that "gnome" is not a valid variable for desktop.

**klaus2008** · 05-17-2010, 08:24 PM

I would suggest the creation of a file /etc/sysconfig/desktop with the line

Code:

SESSION=gnome

/etc/init.d/knoppix-startx reads that file and uses its content to select the gnome desktop environment. Edit: I think there should be quotation marks around gnome. But how do I enter those in this forum? Every time I tried I got the HTML &"

**jheaton5** · 05-17-2010, 09:09 PM

Originally Posted by klaus2008

I would suggest the creation of a file /etc/sysconfig/desktop with the line

Code:

SESSION=gnome

/etc/init.d/knoppix-startx reads that file and uses its content to select the gnome desktop environment. Edit: I think there should be quotation marks around gnome. But how do I enter those in this forum? Every time I tried I got the HTML &&quot;

Klaus, that was the solution. Thanks a bunch.

**krishna.murphy** · 05-18-2010, 04:45 PM

Originally Posted by klaus2008

I think there should be quotation marks around gnome. But how do I enter those in this forum? Every time I tried I got the HTML &"

I find that "gnome" will work. Where are you puttiing that in, Code block like this one?

Code:

SESSION="gnome"

Maybe it's okay because I'm on a Mac in Opera at the moment.

Krishna

**jheaton5** · 05-18-2010, 06:13 PM

[code]SESSION=gnome[/code|
worked just fine without the ""
I still seem to be using openbox however. Is there a config file I can edit to change to gdm?

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