On 10/07/2013 09:37 AM, davidson@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote:
On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Jape Person wrote:
On 10/06/2013 05:33 PM, davidson@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote:
On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Jape Person wrote:
For both stable and testing I tried both LXDE and Xfce desktop
environment installations. But when the systems rebooted, I
was at
the Gnome desktop.
[snip]
is it possible that [the display manager at login] did offer
you a
choice (via, say, a drop-down menu or something), with gnome
pre-selected as the default?
No, I suppose I should have mentioned that. The default choice
(from
lightdm) was "default xsession". The only other choice in the
dropdown on the login was gnome. I didn't see Xfce listed at all.
okay, i see. interesting. that is more misbehavior than is
reported
thus far at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=718855 .
the absence of Xfce from the DM selections---that is missing
from the
report. the report just says Xfce isn't the default selection in
lightdm.
I hope that is actually the case. I am sober now and not
kibbitzing with my buddies, but don't have much time. If I can
get some free time I'll try again with my eyes open and taking
notes for a possible contribution to the bug report.
I say I hope that is the case, because that would mean that a new
user could install one of these lightweight environments and just
deal temporarily with the dross until the package management /
dependency issues are fixed, at which time the upgrade process
might offer to remove gnome during an upgrade. Of course, that
would probably confuse the heck out of 'em, too, wouldn't it?
[SNIP]