Changing Desktop Manager in Debian Wheezy

Hi

Yes or just use synaptic, it is easier later to get rid of xfce

Once installed, log out and then check the session drop down now contains LXDE. Select that and log in.

If everything works OK, you can then go back into synaptic, put in xfce in the search box and then deselect everything already selected that relates to the window manager
(there are a couple of references that relate to other things, just check the summary and if unsure leave it)

Then reboot and you should have no session entry relating to xfce just LXDE

regards

EDIT. The golden rule is, install the new manager, make sure it works as you want THEN remove the old one.

The menu editor for lxde is called lxmed and is here:-
lxmed.sourceforge.net/download.html

It should appear in the 'Preferences' menu once installed

This gives some info re configuring it to suit
sites.google.com/site/debianinstallnotes/lxde/set-up

BigJohnT wrote:

When I log off and try and login with LXDE it want's a password but I've not set one for it. I can't even login to my XFCE with my password so I rebooted.

I always use a password login, if you had it set for auto login, I imagine that does not persist across window managers.

If you can't log in even with the correct password you probably need to reset it

After XFCE loaded I got and Error GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: An authentication agent already exists for the given subject.
JT

Caused probably by an interaction between the 2 installed wm's
I have never had it, but have never gone back to xfce after installing lxde.
This covers the error message and getting rid of it.

www.blackmoreops.com/2013/11/19/fix-gdbu...i-lmde-debian-linux/

I experimented with a few other WM's yesterday, but aside from iceWM, which still has a bug which prevents display of Qt5 apps, I still prefer lxde.

This is a chart of the relevant memory usage for all the main WM's





regards

BJT, do you know mate desktop manager?
is a gnome 2 fork evolution, much like ubuntu 8.04 style.

to try it:
Mate desktop available in debian backports repositories.

Add this lines to /etc/apt/sources.list

# wheezy-backports
deb ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main contrib non-free

And run following commands:

apt-get update
apt-get install mate-desktop-environment-extras

After this actions you will have MATE Desktop Environmen 1.8.1
Currently it's latest stable release.
Enjoy!

more in:
wiki.debian.org/Mate

Yes while I haven't tried LXDE, Mate is very nice so far.

Chris M