Re: Switch to xfce?

Aaron Cirilo wrote:

i couldn't get it boot to Xfce by default.. so changed to run level3
and use the 'startxfce4' command to boot.
i'm new tho..so there is a way to do it but i'm not informed.

BTW... XFCE 4 is way fast.

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Mike Loiterman wrote:

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How can I switch to the xfce window manger?  I'm using gnome now.

I have the rpm's installed for version 4 of xfce.

I have tried copying the included xinitrc into ~/.xinitrc, but that
didn't work correctly.

Any ideas?

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After running through the fedora news howto and also running into this problem i googled and found a solution.

Create a file called .Xclients-default in the home directory of the user you want to use XFCE as the default window manager and make the contents of the file simply:

startxfce4

save the file and make it executable: chmod +x .Xclients-default

log out and try logging back in using the 'default' session option.