Umarzuki Mochlis ha scritto:
i installed lxde with aptitude install --without-recommends lxde then i ran update-alternatives --config x-session-manager no startx, weird. Ran startlxde but nothing happened then i installed xdm, make .xsession with exec xdm in it, rebooted but nothing happened which step that i missed
No offense, but you've misunderstood how it works: 1) xdm is started (by a script in /etc/init.d/, or whatever else) 2) you login at xdm3) xdm reads your xsession/xinitrc and uses *that* to launch your session manager (the xinit manpage has a working example based on twm, but the idea is that it's just a shell script that launches lxde or whatever else)
4) You got a working session :D 5) google for more examples if you're still unsatisfied